by Shwe Tein

Home in the Hot Season 2013
120x91 cm
Shwe Tein

Shwe Thein was born in Kyauk Taw, Rakhine State in 1981. He attended the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon from 2001 to 2004. He has joined many group shows, and works as an artist in Yangon.

This painting of home in the hot season uses vibrant colour to convey the extreme heat, often rising above 40 degrees, experienced in parts of Myanmar in the months of February, March and early April before the monsoon rains come to signal the start of a new year.