Nathakorn Saengtongaram
Biography
Natha Out of the Blue represent part of her name (Nathakorn) and her spontaneity. Chiangmai, north of Thailand is her origin working studio base. She is a self-taught artist that has been creating her subject matter that blend with her inspiration and design on her canvas with several techniques she inspired.
Painting on canvas, she will be preparing her gouache color from the pigment mixing them with the binders. She uses gouache to have some earth tone that she likes. Acrylic colors still take part and being playful on her canvas. The way “OUT OF THE BLUE” action has inspired her most of the time. It is when she feels drawn to establish the creation with a plentiful of energy.
Artist Statement
She states “The ideas of each artwork sometime are guided through my intuition from the voice within”. She tries to convey the message of the artwork to touch upon the viewers. She hopes that her artwork has spoken to the viewers in certain way.
What’s your background?
She is an expressive artist attracted to the color’s tones. The Natural environment is her main source of inspiration to her artworks. She is a self-taught artist who embraces herself with outdoor sketches. Ten years of her practices were mostly on paper and tissue paper, then she moved to acrylic medium painted on the canvas. During her 20s she was joggling between official works and her artistic expression. She had a big question since her teenage years: “What is the purpose of life? “In this curiosity, it led her to the meditation practices in which she enters the 10 days retreat every year. She learned to be patient and observe her inner emotion and thoughts. She believed that through the meditative practice and contemplation, this allowed her to produce her artworks authentically and intuitively.
What does it mean to you to win the Collectors Art Prize?
This honorable prize supports many challenges of the emerging artist. While the world is in its chaotic state with plenty of the unrested news, she is working on her productive state to reflect the lights and good healing energy. The Art Prize represents the cheering voice she received during her sole artistic career path. It encourages her to keep being wild for inspiration and have faith in this profession.
What do you think is the role of art in the world today?
Art can be many things. Producing art allowed oneself to play, heal, express, be confident, be creative, communicate, etc. The final outcome gave the beauty and the powerful message to the viewer. The role of art in the world today in my point of view are the medium to develop the artist’s ability to create the ideas, to reflect the voices on humanity and soul purpose and to connect people around the world as we are one regardless of religions, sectors, genders, colors, and any kind of wars and political unrest. She hopes that the end result of the art’s roles would be the showcase of peace and love.
What would it be if you could change one thing about the art world?
The other side of the art world is that many famous art pieces in their peak prices are speculative and are extravagant products. Some of the affluent and affordable buyers bought the art pieces for the speculation for the higher price value. It would be better if the traditional value in the art pieces be cherished instead of the overpriced value status.
What are your most significant professional achievements?
Art exhibitions both physically and online have been the laddering steps on her professional achievements. The commencing on the art career progress takes time in the alignment with herself growth and understanding the world. The gallery representations are her significant achievements and the opportunity to be able to converse with the art lovers, views, buyers and anyone who shared the positivity are the progressive achievement.
What do you wish to tell viewers about your work that might not come out explicitly? What do you hope to inspire with your artwork?
“Sometime artworks may be the gift from the universe to someone in this world” She hopes we will live through life with your gift from the universe; finding and knowing your gift is her wish to inspire people with the artworks. Her artworks are produced in the traditional form - canvas medium. In contrast to the growing technological century where coding, artificial intelligence programs support many artworks in the digital form, her production is differentiated from the complex form of innovation. Her traditional style of the artworks is cleansing hand by hand brushstrokes to bring out the original message intentionally and subconsciously to the viewers.
What advice would you give to the upcoming generation of artists?
There is a bombardment of information in today’s digital accessibility. Her only advice she would like to press on is to stand grounding on your intuitive voices and use your wise consideration to go through many challenges on the professional path. Artist’s career comes with the responsibility to yourself, many times loneliness is rotting our mind and mentality, thus we keep our faith up high with your higher purpose you are on.
In what direction would you like to see your career go in the next five years?
She desires to be at “The Home”. The Home where she has been developing her intuition and her understanding to the point she can share and return something to the people. Reflecting back to a question in her beginning years “What is the purpose of life?”, for her the answer would be “It is when she has walked through the up and down, reaching the peaks of opportunities for exhibitions, art representation, the unexpected art selling, the collaboration in any form. It is when she has done all the things she could have done and then have some part where she should give something back.
Country Thailand
Website www.nathaoutoftheblue.com
