When people look at my paintings, they see portraits, a scene, skill and technique. When I paint, I want people to understand and look at the immensity of emotions of these portraits. The wide smile of a street vendor, the lost expression of a priest, the reminiscing face of a woman, the happy laugh of a child; these aren't just portraits, it is a window into the myriad of human emotions. Human emotions are magical; in my paintings, no one is impassive, they are in deep thought or expressing some form of sentiment or the other. I have entrenched respect...
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Zwe Yan Naing was born in 1984 in Taunggok, a river town in Rakhine State. He moved to Yangon to study at the State School of Fine Arts. Zwe Yan Naing has had numerous exhibitions in Myanmar but has also shown his art in Brighton, Seattle, Amsterdam, Bangkok, and Hong Kong. His first solo exhibition was held in 2012 at the Pansodan Gallery. The paintings that Zwe Yan Naing is best known for are those showing a Burmese girl with thick patches of thanakha on her cheeks. It is a girl who appears in his dreams, and each time urges...
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U Sein Myint was born in 1945 in the Sagaing Hills in Upper Myanmar near the City of Mandalay. After completing high school, he continued his studies until he reached the final year at the Mandalay Arts and Science University majoring in Myanmar language and literature. As a student of the arts, Sein Myint apprenticed himself to well-known personalities in the world of Myanmar art such as Paw Oo Thet, U Win Pe and U Lu Tin. He continued to improve and hone his skills by studying and apprenticing under master craftsmen like U Aye Myint (Master of traditional Myanmar...
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