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Khin Myint is a Burmese artist based in the UK who became well-known in her native country with paintings that ran counter to its visual arts traditions.
Khin was the first woman to have a nude painting hung in public in Burma, a country under strict military control. She was also one of the first to experiment with abstract art in what remains to this day a highly traditional environment.
Khin now lives near London and her current work reveals a unique synthesis of Burmese ethnic art and western abstraction and colour, incorporating such elements as hessian, string and gold leaf.
Khin's paintings both celebrate the beauties of the natural world and deplore the horrors of the political world.
Copyright Ò KHIN MYINT 2008
"Emerald cool we may be as water in cupped hands but oh that we might be as splinters of glass in cupped hands"
Aung San Suu Kyi
Private & corporate commissions accepted
Beyond Burma
The BEYOND BURMA exhibition at London's Menier Gallery in February, featuring Khin Myint, former political prisoner Htein Lin and three other Burmese artists, proved a great success, with a proportion of the proceeds from sales going to Prospect Burma, a charity operating on behalf of the people of Burma.
