by Co Thiee

Inle Lake 2012
121x91 cm
Co Thiee

Co Thiee was born in Yangon in 1963. As a student at Yangon University, he drew posters for the 8-8-88 democracy movement. In the 1990s he was employed as a signboard painter, illustrator, graphic designer and film director. He turned to painting in 2000, making it his professional career in 2006.

In this painting of Inle Lake in Shan State on the eastern side of Myanmar, he uses vivid colour to depict a community based entirely on water. For centuries, people have lived in stilt houses, been employed in stilt workshops, and grown produce in floating gardens. Today Inle Lake is a major tourist destination.