‘The lovely big-bird jet planes flew to the United States and dropped us at Honolulu International Airport. I thought, now that I am in the wide world outside, maybe hope can grow, I can become one of the international artists that is my dream.’ Paw Thame is a displaced Burmese artist in the United States [...]

See Paw Thame’s new paintings in oil at Mar Mar’s Suvannabhumi Gallery starting August 13, 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Here are the show’s catalogue notes by Ma Thanegi with an excerpt from I am Cadmium Red, Paw Thame’s Autobiography: Paw Thame the artist   “A few creative people exist only as the entity embodying [...]

  Note:  Here is an excerpt from the new book, I am Cadmium Red by Burmese-American artist Paw Thame. The book is the result of over 300 emails Paw Thame sent to me over a two month period in the winter of 2009 in response to my questions.  Ma Thanegi, the internationally acclaimed author from [...]