Buang Suang Art Studio Art Gallery Thailand

INTERVIEW

ART in a Mother's Heart
THAIPEOPLE observe a national holiday on 12 August not only to mark Her Magesty Queen Sirikit's birthday, but also as the annual Mother's Day. Stories of the love between a mother and her children are a universal topic that have been endlessly told, but since each mother has her own way of raising her children, each new story may teach us something new. Interesting moms have interesting wats of edifying their seeds.
For the month of August, Tropical brings you five artist mothers from Japan, Kotea, and Thailand who reveal insights into their unique lifestyles and how they have combined artwork with raising their offspring.

REWADEE LIVISIT, painter and pianist, is part of an astistic family. She started painting plang with oil on canvas in high school and started practicing piano at the age of 11. judging from her appearance, it is hard to imagine that Rewadee is a mother of a 8-year-old.

"I think every woman is guided in her work by the sense of responsibility that comes with motherhood. I take my work seriously and sincerely. I cannot pretend that all my paintings come from my heart. You're supposed to reflect your emotions in your art. Motherhood helps you to understand yourself better and attend to your duties with more dertermination," revealed Rewadee.

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"All mothers work hard. The breeziness and convenience of the single life is left behind. You have to be tough because you have a life to protect that's dependent on you in every way. You cannot afford to make a step in the wrong direction."

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This sentiment prevails in one of her favorite paintings, a scene of a mother breatfeeding a baby, looking through thewindow. Rewadee said it was painted when she was looking after her baby alone. Life in Bangkok is intense. With everybody gone to work, she was the only one in the house to look after the baby, with a cat loneliest time in her life. She would look out of the window and wait for the others to come back home.

"Some people employ nursemaids to look after their children. I couldn't do that. I would wake up at 2 am to breastfeed and stay awake painting until the new day began. Look at Bozo (my son) now that he's grown up enough to give me a comment on whay color I should use. I treathim now as a grown-up."

Rewadee has an expressionist style when working with oil on canvas. After she was commissioned to do some work for a temple she came back to impressionist work for a while, but that was not what she wanted to do.

Then the painting 'Bill Fighting' emerged, which symbolized Rewadee's unwillingness to follow social trends anymore. If was her own 'bull fight' to win the chance to do what she wants.

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"Someone who engages in a fight has to be cinfident enough. Ironically, the audience applauds the Toreador even when he wants to kill the bull. No one cares for the bull, so finally it dies.'

Rewadee's first exhibition was held in 2001, organized by Lions Club International. The profits from the exhibition were donated to the MD-310' Our Home' project the new Lions Club office. Twenty-four artists participated in this project.

Rewadee's next project will be the Red Cross exhibition, again in conjunction with many other artists. She started painting for charity - pictures of beautiful flowers, singing with a band, and everything else that insprires her. "I have more time because my son now goes to school. I can paint or teach piano. That is all I need to do make me happy," Rewadee concludes.

Rewadee was born in Bangkok in 1967. she graduated from Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Art, majoring in piano. She also took private piano lessons with Professor Kern George of Mozorteum Soizburg, Austria. She is how married with an 8-year-old son, and has opened her own contemporary gallery called 'Buangsuang'

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