Passing Train Canvas Print

With this body of work, I�m exploring more into the Amelie-An Series and the extended of its theme in which showing more of her personality, and her interactions with the family.
Influenced by Andrew Wyeth, I�m using my family members as models and I want each painting to tell a story. I want to create a feeling of something is happening or going to happen �and I want the viewers to interpret it their own way.
I want my painting to have a feel of conceptual not just another pretty picture.
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I was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Being very shy, I spent much of my childhood hiding away upstairs painting, instead of playing with other children. My first brush with success was a Best of Show prize at the 1974 children's exhibition in Saigon sponsored by UNICEF. In 1975 Saigon fell and in the resulting confusion I was separated from my parents. I ended up in a refuge camp near Hong Kong for a year prior to immigrating to the United States as an orphan. After one very snowy and cold winter in Pennsylvania, I went to Los Angeles to stay with some relatives. During my high school years, I earned extra money doing fashion modeling work in the garment district and upon graduation started on the pre-med program in college. During this...