Vietnam's silk paintings

Welcome to Vietnamese silk paintings!

This is an official online gallery to display and update artworks of Artist Pham Kim Hoa.

In Vietnam, painting on silk is popular art form. Vietnamese artists found this technique to be a unique way of lending a mystique charm (Vietnam traditional culture) to their paintings.

By using contemporary colours, Vietnamese silk painting has the great inspiration on the hearts of many art lovers nationally and internationally. Today this art has become famous around the world for its simple poetic themes and vibrant colours. The Vietnamese style of silk painting emphasized softness, elegance and a flexibility of style.

Vietnamese silk paintings typically showcase scenes of daily life, the countryside, landscapes, pagodas, historical events. The delicate white colour found in the sky, water, or human portrait, is the colour of silk. The colour of silk is well known to describe human figure in the paintings of many famous Vietnamese artists. Delicate colour and silk background give the paintings such an harmony with the nature.

Silk painting is now popular in Vietnam and has its own unique character and transparency of colours that are different from those of ancient China and Japan. Each painting is a great description of the beautiful nature and talented skills of Vietnamese. By using contemporary colours, Vietnamese silk painting has won the hearts of many art lovers nationally and Internationally.

With the mission is to introduce Vietnamese silk paintings to the world, Vietnam Art Collection presents the collected artworks of artist Pham Kim Hoa.

One said that painting is one of ways to recognize the world but it's also a way to love the world. We do hope that you will know, understand and love Vietnamese culture through her journey of silk painting.