Thai Art Exhibition

Beautiful Life by Sudrak Utayophas
15 January 2011 - 10 February 2011
at 9Art Gallery/ Architect Studio, Chiangrai

I want to show how the arms of happiness and peacefulness have enveloped me in my life. In childhood, I stayed with my grandmother and grandfather in the countryside where I was in touch with the simple life of the farmers and those who lived in an agrarian society.















At that time I was too young and inexperienced to appreciate the value of such a life. Now that I have grown and experienced other ways of living and other ways of life, I appreciate what peace
and tranquility I had when living the simple life of a farmer. I am privileged to have had such an experience and to have known happiness and peacefulness of my life.














I wish I could turn back the clock and reach out and touch that life again, but that is impossible as time has marched on and everything in the world has changed.

The memories and feelings I store in my mind, I now transmit to my paintings. I hope by sharing these images, others will see the values and beauty of the agrarian life.

Sudrak Utayophas

9Art Gallery/ Architect Studio : 786/11 Moo.3 Phaholyotin Rd,Wiang,Muang,Chiangrai 57000 : Tel.0-5371-9110 Fax:0-5374-4168
E-mail : artgallery9@yahoo.com, www.9artgallery.com

Returning to Chiangrai
by Robert Blair Porter
on September 18 - October 18, 2010
at 9 Art Gallery, Chiangrai




Robert Blair Porter
Born 1951
Attended Ontario College of Art

“About a year ago I returned to Chiangrai after a 4 year absence.

This has given me a certain perspective and clarified my feelings about Chiangrai.

I have tried to express some of this in my recent works.

This exhibition is a celebration of our return to Chiangrai,

I have therefore included some works I completed before I left Chiangrai,

some from while I was away and what I have been working on since our return.”

9Art Gallery/ Architect Studio :
786/11 Moo.3 Phaholyotin Rd,Wiang,Muang,Chiangrai 57000 : Tel.0-5371-9110 Fax:0-5374-4168,E-mail : artgallerynine@gmail.com

Daddy's Home by Sompong Sarasap
on January 20 - February 10, 2010
at 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio, Chiangrai

SOMPONG 2009

Daddy's Home

    In 1977, I moved from Chiangrai to Bangkok in order to Complete my secondary education and to, hopefully gain an academic degree.... The change in my environment was extreme for a carefree country boy who enjoyed village life. The city people were always
in a hurry and nobody cared to know each other. There seemed to be just, task, duty and going forward. When alone at the end of each busy day I wished that I could be home with my parents , my family , my friends and to be among nature ,trees ,leaves ,river , wind ,dogs ,chickens, etc, Bangkok is a 12 hour bus ride but was like going to another planet or a new dimension .During my 7 years in Bangkok I endured many days full of contrast and confusion. To survive, I would bury myself in my books ,write essays and paint with no end in view.
    I would often question myself about the upset to my social life and think of my past.
In 1984 I returned to Chiangrai , and hoped for a life of ,painting and writing every day and to follow my past, visiting friends.
    Many married and had children but still like to travel to the mountains. The life of the mountain people does impress me very much
and makes me think of my ego. I think also of the life of those minority Thais that is being invaded by civilization which causes so
much frustration.
    Ideally, I want my work to tell of the beautifulness of the life. It is 25 years since I returned to Chiangrai. I am now a family man with children of my own.The past seems like only yesterday. Planet earth is now a small world, where all are bound together. My birth place, Chiangrai, is not far from Bangkok, New York, Tokyo, Paris, or any other city. The windows of the country cottage have now opened to contemporary fashion. The dwellers in the condos and apartments are reluctant to reveal their nostalgia for the old ways, the
memory of the rice silo.

On Saturday December 5^th, 2009 at 7.00 pm.
At 9 Art Gallery / Architect Studio , Chiangrai
( 100 m . from King Mengrai Monument to Maechan)
Opening hours Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 am. - 20.00 pm.
The exhibition will be on view until January 5^th ,2010
More information tel. 0-5371-9110 , 083-152-6021
e-mail:artgallery9@yahoo.com / www.9artgallery.com