Digital paintings built the long way — sketch through final rendering, in Krita, using traditional techniques translated to a tablet. Each piece took roughly a month. Scroll down to view them; click, drag, or use arrow keys to peel back through the process.
- Year
- 2023
- Medium
- Digital painting (Krita)
- Format
- Digital, variable resolution
- Status
- Completed
- Series
- Private Collection
Built from a conversation with a woman named Nittaya, met while wandering the back streets of Bangkok at night. The painting was developed over roughly a month in Krita — sketch, value block-in, layered colour, and successive rendering passes — drawn from memory rather than any single photograph.
I spend a lot of my time walking around the parts of cities most people don't, and sometimes I end up in conversation with whoever happens to be there. Nittaya was one of those people — a woman in Bangkok with her own life and her own reasons for being on that street, none of which were mine to ask about. We talked for a while, like strangers do, and then went our separate ways. The portrait isn't a claim on her story; it's an attempt to hold onto the face of someone I met once and listened to.
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- Digital painting (Krita)
- Format
- Digital, variable resolution
- Status
- Completed
- Series
- Private Collection
Based on the ping pong shows of Bangkok's red-light districts — Patpong, Soi Cowboy, Nana — the loud, mechanical side of a tourist industry everyone in the city knows about and nobody quite knows how to talk about. Built up over roughly a month in Krita using traditional rendering techniques.
Patpong at night is loud and mechanical — neon, barkers, a stage, and at the centre of it a woman doing her job while a room full of tourists laughs around her. The painting isn't a document of the show; it's a painting of her, and of the quiet exhaustion I thought I could read on her face beneath the coloured light.
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- Digital painting (Krita)
- Format
- Digital, variable resolution
- Status
- Completed
- Series
- Private Collection
A painting about loneliness. A sex worker sits at a mirror — but the reflection in the glass is mine. Built up over roughly a month in Krita using traditional rendering techniques.
Loneliness is an uneasy emotion for me. I've spent most of my life in a version of it I can't quite explain — something self-imposed that never loosened its grip. Sex workers carry a different but adjacent loneliness: the loneliness of being used by a society that then refuses to see them. This painting is a small attempt at that overlap. The woman at the mirror is a real person — a sex worker, not an imagined figure. She posed as a model for this painting. She looks into the glass expecting to see herself, and finds me staring back: two people kept apart by the same wall, meeting in the reflection.
- Year
- 2023
- Medium
- Digital painting (Krita)
- Format
- Digital, variable resolution
- Status
- Completed
- Series
- Private Collection
Based on the HIV epidemic among Thai sex workers — and on what happens to many of them after diagnosis. They go back to Isaan to die. Women working the bars in Pattaya return to the impoverished northeast they originally came from, to be cared for quietly at home. Built up over roughly a month in Krita using traditional rendering techniques.
Pattaya runs on a steady inflow of young women from Isaan, and a steady outflow of older or sick ones going the other way. HIV is part of that quiet circulation — diagnosis is often a one-way ticket back to a village, to be cared for by a mother or grandmother until the end. The painting tries to sit with that journey rather than illustrate it: the body present, the future already absent.