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MEET THE ARTISTS
AARON SCHMIDT
Comic Artist
Aaron Schmidt has worked in the field of animation, TV, film and art for over 2 decades, including multiple award-winning films and music videos such as Tod Polson’s “Prodigal” and “Escape of the Gingerbread Man,” Thai singer Petch Osathanugrah’s music video “Fill Me,” and Bryan Ott’s “The Glow.” In the last decade Aaron has turned toward more traditional art forms. He has worked as a freelance illustrator for tabletop games and has been working on multiple graphic novels using traditional pen and ink.
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AARTI
Dancer
Aarti is a, a German language trainer from India who likes to spend her leisure time with different forms of art and showing one of the easy and fun to learn dance videos. As a YouTuber and an Instagrammer, she wants to motivate people to dance and realize what a life-changer any form of art can be.
Please follow her YouTube channel Team Artilicious to see her and her team dance to different genres of songs from all over the world!
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ADISAK DAS PONGSAMPAN
Comic Artist
Adisak Das Pongsampan is a cartoonist who has been drawing manga and comics for 27 years and has published about 80 books in Thailand.
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AKSHIT SETHI
Illustrator, Animator
Akshit is an artist who likes to make character illustrations, animation, pixel art, etc. He hopes that the joy in making art never leaves us.
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ALEX WAGNER
Painter, Photographer
As an art and fashion student, Alex is just hoping to make it in this field and mostly does painting in oil and watercolor, along with the occasional photography.
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ALEXANDRA MEILAN WANG
Designer
Alexandra is currently pursuing a five year Bachelors of Architecture degree at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating in 2025. Architecture is a way of storytelling and understanding the place is something she has been interested in. She looks at design as a way to understand another story, people and places, while making sense of our world and environment.
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AMY DIENER
Painter, Educator
Amy Diener is a New York artist and art teacher currently living in Bangkok. She specializes in vibrant mandala dot paintings inspired by colors and patterns from her travel encounters. She has had a long history of battling OCD and uses art as a coping mechanism to relieve anxiety. She paints only dots in her artwork because she finds the creative process to be very meditative. Amy’s goal is to bring awareness to and destigmatize mental health through art. She has exhibited her works worldwide including in New York, Thailand, Dubai, Singapore, and Germany and has been featured in noteworthy publications such as The Bangkok Post and landed on the front cover of Wanderlust: Expat Life and Style Magazine.
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ANDI
3D Artist, Graphic Designer, Photographer
Andi is a graphic designer, traveler and freediver, amongst other things, who does graphic design as a hobby now and loves to create psychedelic fractal art and 3D but does vector art and photography as well.
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ANDREA
3D Artist, Graphic Designer, Photographer
A Colombian artist living in Bangkok, Andrea loves exploring new places and finding beauty in things that are slightly unsettling.
Andrea mainly focus on illustration and portraits and is often inspired by objects and places reclaimed by nature.
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ANDREY
Digital Painter
Originally from Vietnam, Andrey is a self-taught art lover who is lucky to be able to do a bit of drawing. He has never officially been to art school, but played around with pencil, charcoal and watercolor before settling down with digital painting. His art conveys some of the visions encountered in dreams, lonely worlds beyond in which he tries to find some hope through each painting.
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ANGELA PAGANO
Concept Artist, Mixed Media Artist, Filmmaker
Angela Pagano is an artist from Naples, currently based between Tokyo and Bangkok. Her journey through diverse cultures has shaped her artistic exploration, drawing inspiration from human behavior and the ongoing dialogue between East and West. Movement, transformation, identity, and symbolism are at the core of her work. Angela plays with paper, plaster, glue, acrylics, clay, charcoal, and all kind of objects and tools. Originally working with physical materials, Angela is now shifting her focus toward video and photography, experimenting and deconstructing narratives.
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ANGELA PATERA
Illustrator, Painter
Angela is a hobby artist from Lefkada, a small island in Greece, who enjoys drawing anything that inspires her but I mainly does fan art of movie characters and musicians from bands. Recently, after many years, interest in drawing nature and fantasy has inspired her art again.
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ANNA
Illustrator
From the artist:
“I’m a dreamer. I’m in blue. I’m a thinker. I’m a fool."
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ARDIANSYAH YUSUF
Illustrator
An illustrator from Aceh, Indonesia, Ardiansyah usually draws using pen and gives his drawings a photoshop touch.
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ARSHIA ATIQ
Illustrator, Painter
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."
-Lewis Carroll
Arshia’s art is an embodiment of this quote and is heavily influenced by music and literature. With an interest in fantasy art and surrealism, Arshia keeps trudging forward to find her own artistic voice.
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ART DD
Game Creator, Illustrator
Originally from the U.S., Art DD now calls Bangkok home. While teaching is his day job, his true passion lies in coding and creating immersive online games, along with other coding-related fun projects. He uses sketching as a creative outlet to develop his drawing skills. An enthusiast of ice baths, he is also continuously exploring ways to improve his health through breathing techniques, nutrition, and exercise.
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ARTWORM
Painter
A traditional artist based in Bangkok, Jezel Avendano, aka Artworm, specializes in watercolor and acrylic. Artworm does not paint in a specific style, but rather shows variety in each piece., experimenting on different kinds of styles which helps the artist to be versatile when it comes to working on commissions.
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ASHA
Artist, Fashion Designer
Asha is a new artist who works in art and fashion and also marketing. She hopes you enjoy what she created.
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BAM PONDCHITA
Painter, Illustrator
An artist from Thailand, Bam’s work is about how she expresses her feelings and stories.
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BAN RAK SUN
Painter, Potter, Book Maker
Ban Rak Sun usually uses watercolor paint but also likes to try different types of media. The artist likes to document memories and feelings by sketching while traveling and dreams to publish a book collecting travel themed paintings.
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BIGEGGS BLACK PEN
Illustrator, Painter
Bigeggs Black Pen (Tae) ia a Thai full-time NFT artist who also considers himself as a representative of H.P. Lovecraft. His drawings are inspired by cosmic horror and dark fantasy themes. He is also interested in culture around the world and represents it with a new perspective in his own art style, telling a unique story with every piece of his art with traditional drawing pen on paper and watercolor style.
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BOAZ ZIPPOR
Graphic Artist, Musician
An artist, poet, musician and philanthropist living in Bangkok for over 18 years. Boaz is a veteran of the advertising, marketing and branding industry and now concentrates on fundraising for charity through art exhibitions, book publications and other creative projects.
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BRANDON HAMRICK
Filmmaker, Photographer, Illustrator
Brandon has been living in Bangkok since the start of 2022 with his partner Donna. They brought with them from the U.S. their two cats and their love of adventure. Creating art has been a joy of Brandon’s for as long as he can remember, and most of his work has been with videos. Recently, however, he has been exploring other media such as photography and oil pastels.
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CARLA VISSER
Illustrator
Carla Visser, a graduate of Stellenbosch University in South Africa, primarily creates detailed line drawings with traditional dip pens, brush pens, glas dip pens and fine liners. She predominantly works in achromatic tones but will occasionally dabble here and there with small splashes of color. She believes that well-exectuted black-and-white drawings can effectively substitute for color, evoke emotions and tell a story.
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CASSANDRA GRINDALL
Writer, Comic Artist, Digital Artist, A.I. Fluffer
Cassandra is the daughter of an American diplomat who was assassinated before she was born. She inherited only her father’s book, her good looks and her thirst for justice. Her work is an attempt to recreate a vanished world and avenge the crimes of violence to the truth. To that end she creates difficult, obscure and very autistic books, comic books and art.
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CHARAM LIM
Filmmaker, Photographer, Illustrator
from the artist:
“I want to share a story about the death of beauty so that people can say goodbye to making every day as valuable as possible. I haven’t drawn since primary school until now because I want to connect with people through art again. So I went back to drawing two years ago using an iPad. Feel free to give me advice.”
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CHARTLAJAM
Graphic Designer, Fashion Designer
Purely Bangkokian, Chartlajam moves everywhere throughout the year but is now back to Bangkok for good. She received a degree in fashion design but her main art skills are crafting jewelry and graphic design. For illustration, her comfort zone is the freehand pen sketching in her small sketch book.
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CHILDREN OF THE FOREST
Comic Artists
Children of the Forest is a school and children's home in Sangkhlaburi near the Thai-Myanmar border helping improve the lives of stateless and migrant children and families.
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CHRISTIAN FIELITZ
Graphic Designer, Fashion Designer
Christian initiated his art studies at Universitaet der Kuenste and Art Academy – Weissensee, both in his home city Berlin. Later, instead of accepting a good opportunity to continue his studies in London, he chose instead the conservative fields of academia and professional occupations. Regrettably, this decision diverted him from his true passion – art & design – but luckily only briefly. He has since done furniture design, illustrations for various purposes, graphic novels, but is currently focussing on paintings.
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CLAIRE CHANG
Visual Development Artist
A graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a BFA in Entertainment Art and Animation, Claire Chang is a background and prop designer. In 2023, she completed a 5-month production internship at Nickelodeon. As a young girl, she loved to draw and watch Disney movies, and that passion for colors and art followed her all the way to adulthood. She aspires to design backgrounds and props that highlight overlooked cultures, particularly their beauty and human qualities. She is also passionate about traveling and learning about different cultures.
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COLORLESSCROWD
Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Painter
Colorlesscrowd is a self-taught artist who channels raw emotions into crowd colors and expressions with textures by using oil pastels.
“In these moments, when I could see an image so clearly, down to every detail, I call them a collection of my frozen moments.“
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CONNOR FLYNN
Portrait Artist, Painter
Connor likes to think of himself as a portrait artist, and certainly all the work he has done so far are portraits. Usually, they are either drawings with markers or some paintings. He is trying to learn to be brave with his practice… to commit to each line, leave the pencil behind and capture a sense of immediacy and impact with his markers.
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