About Jirattaya

My practice begins in quiet moments, when the noise of everyday life falls away and something more instinctive comes forward. Thoughts, emotions, memories, and sensations can stay with me for quite a long time, sometimes without a clear explanation, and gradually find their way into my work. What begins as a simple impression can develop into an image through the process of making.

I am interested in how different thoughts, feelings, and memories can come together in a work and take on new meaning. Once an image becomes a work, it is no longer only connected to where it began. I value the possibility that someone else can encounter it through their own experience and find a personal connection to it.

I move between painting and drawing, and the two have become closely connected in my practice. Drawing gives me a direct and spontaneous way of working, while painting gives me a different kind of space to stay with an image and explore colour, texture, layering, and scale. Moving between the two allows ideas to develop in different ways, and each continues to influence the other.

My practice has developed alongside a varied path through teaching, working in an art gallery, and living in different countries. As my life has moved through these different stages, I have continued to develop my own work, with each experience shaping the way I see and approach art today.