January 2024

Satta Homsawat (LaFe)
Watercolor in my view is not a technique but a medium for communicating with the audience

Janine Yasovant
with Danin Adler

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I went to update the work of Satta Homsawat ( LaFe ) since he moved to ChiangMai with his family and built a house in Maerim ChiangMai, surrounded by a rice field and the Doi Suthep mountain range. 

Here is a part of our interview...

JY. Tell us about the progress of the watercolor artist group that attended the event performing various shows together recently and going back to when I interviewed you and your work eight years ago.

SH. During the period from 2015 to 2019, I worked in two areas at the same time:

1. Bringing the work of Thai watercolor artists to exhibit abroad in order to introduce Thai watercolor artists to the world to be aware of Thai watercolor works. I last worked to promote Thai artists in 2019, ending with a very important event that I held in Switzerland at the Watercolor art Zurich 2019 event. After this event  my personal career has become more busy. The World Masters Association of Watercolor Arts in England has officially appointed me as a world master of watercolor. So I had to turn my back on public work.

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2. Since 2015, I have had the opportunity to sign a five-year contract with a gallery in Moscow to exhibit my personal works and teach masterclasses in watercolor art, with students mostly from Russia and Europe. and
America, which is considered an important step personally. having advanced to a full-fledged career as a watercolor artist in the watercolor world. It placed my work at the top level in the world of watercolors from now on. Mostly, I was invited to attend biennales of the watercolor industry in Europe and America.

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JY. Is there any event that you remember or a time you went to a workshop that impressed you?

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SH. The workshop that impressed me was in Russia. Mostly because I have a contract that requires me to go there at least twice a year. There I got to know people interested in watercolor from every corner of the
world. There I have a personal Thai, Russian, and English interpreter. The welcome from the institute and the people was excellent and warm. The next workshop would be in Italy, which I have to go every year as well, both to Rome and Milano.

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JY. Please tell us about the atmosphere at the event the last time you traveled to one.

SH. Most recently I attended a major event in the world's watercolor industry at an exhibition in England under the name IWM (International WATERCOLOR Masters) with 42 artists selected from around the world.

This exhibition of work is a VIP level event for those interested in watercolors around the world. Tickets to attend the event are bought at high prices. Exhibiting work in a beautiful old castle, Lilleshall Hall, for viewing Exhibition, Workshop and Demo. Or creating a live private VIP online show of the artist. After that, an auction of the works was held. A work I created for display in the size of 35x28 cm.  It was auctioned for
2,000£ by a British female buyer who has followed my work for more than five years.

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JY. Introduce yourself, your hometown, family, and education clearly once more.

SH. I was born in Chanthaburi Province in a family that farms durian. I acquired a Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Painting, Silpakorn University.

JY.  Future goals, using tools or colors in work, charcoal, and others.

SH. I am an artist who studied art from the Faculty of Painting, Silpakorn University with a thesis on conceptual art, installation art, and land art. Therefore, watercolor is the medium that I have chosen for the concept of my work. For me, watercolor in my view is not a technique but a medium for communicating with the audience. And I can play with other media if it matches the concept I have set for my work. In the future, I have an idea to use watercolor as a medium to create street art and land art works as well.

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JY. Other stories that you would like to tell readers both in this country and abroad that I do not know more about.

SH. I'd rather be within Thailand at this point. Under the new collective art, for me, good art has no separation of techniques and methods nowadays. That art can transcend all sciences in every dimension, like today cartoons that have never been accepted as good art can still be good art. Therefore, let's not look at the value of art in techniques and methods. That might lead one astray. But let's look mainly at the identity of the artist primarily based on his or her mastery over their work. Whether there is truly a Master in the work or not, is very difficult for the artist because most artists are unable to understand their own master status within the basis that is stuck under the world's art education knowledge. Most artists tend to create art with knowledge and expand with knowledge. But there is no understanding of the true identity of artistic innovation itself. In foreign countries, such as in Germany, there are courses on this subject. which is very interesting. This will result in artists continuing to create masterpiece -level art. This will allow Thai artists to compete with foreign artists.

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Janine Yasovant is a writer and art collector in Chiang Mai, Thailand and a Senior Writer for Scene4. For more of her commentary and articles,
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