Press Release

Jee Sa-Ngiam's journey to the art world has been anything but ordinary and it informs every creative choice she makes today, from subject matter to color palette to the very brushstrokes she employs on a given canvas. Jee was born and raised in a village in Khorat, Thailand, and has since lived in Serbia and Albania. In her work she depicts childhood scenes and vivid memories of rural village life unobscured by the passage of time. This is the well of emotions from which she draws much of the inspiration behind her works, which are often simple scenes depicted with great nuance of line and exuberant colors. South Asian life scenes such as Lao boys, Thai Tribes Girls, Vientiane etc. abound in her works and bring an inherent authenticity to the existential themes she is actually exploring beneath the surface.

Her paintings bridge the wide genre gap between European Expressionism and Asian Buddhism: "My colors reflects the vibrant pictures of Thai temples, and like them, my themes are often mystic and naïve."