The age-old traditional technique of creating art with layers of hot wax and coloured dyes has come back into the limelight in the recent years, becoming more popular than it ever was. Commonly known ...

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A regular routine for a young Yasala Prakash (son of artiste, painter Yasala Balaiah) after school hours was to draw outlines of animals in drawing books bought by his father. Balaiah would insist he ...

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Deep reds, tropical greens, exotic blue water and sun showers. Those are the words used to describe original art created by local artist Wendy Tatter. Tatter opened her local gallery in 2005 - W.B.

It is fascinating to think that there are so many existing methods of art and craft all over the world that have been invented and practiced over centuries. It is fascinating to think that there are ...

Late Bihari Barbhaiya was not just a Batik artist, but a professor as well, who dedicated his life to the practice of this art form, and was keen to spread his knowledge tin the form of Batik, a book ...

A visitor soaking in Yee I-Lann's epic work The Orang Besar Series (2010) at Ilham gallery's Love Me In My Batik: Modern Batik Art From Malaysia And Beyond exhibition. Photos: The Star/Azhar Mahfof ...

If you ever go to southwest China's Guizhou Province, "the hometown of batik", the batik clothes are likely to be the first things to catch your eyes. Batik is a traditional folk craftwork that has ...