Artist Bio

Jiratchaya Pripwai (b. 1983, Kalasin, Thailand) is a visual artist whose abstract works reflect personal life events and emotional landscapes. Her practice transforms lived experiences into minimalist yet evocative forms, creating a space for shared reflection, memory, and healing.

After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Painting at Chiang Mai University and her Master’s degree in Painting at Silpakorn University in 2011, she devoted herself to life as a full-time artist. Her work, mostly abstract, unfolds through a meditative process, carrying emotions and memories from different moments of her life. For her, art is both a path to healing and a space for nurturing balance of mind. Each piece becomes a page in an ever-growing journal, quietly evolving alongside her own growth.

In 2018, she renovated an old house to create her studio, complete with a small backyard garden. Gardening allows her to witness the subtle wonders of life—the morning sunlight slowly moving across the garden, a rosebud opening, blooming, and gently falling, and the soft breeze brushing the leaves. Gardening brings a sense of calm, much like practicing mindfulness. Her backyard garden is not only a spiritual refuge but also a source of inspiration for her artistic practice. It has opened new perspectives in her work, from line drawings to painting, from black-and-white to vibrant colors, and it has encouraged her to experiment with materials.

Pripwai aims to expand her artistic practice by cultivating a deeper connection with nature, allowing her work to unfold as a dialogue with its rhythms, cycles, and quiet transformations. Informed by the stillness and harmony of natural environments, she seeks to create spaces of calm and reflection, where viewers are invited to pause and reconnect with the serenity that nature offers. Through this process, her art becomes not only a form of self-expression but also a gentle reminder of our shared belonging to the natural world.

Jiratchaya Pripwai was born in Kalasin and raised in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where she continues to live and work.