The Artist Prateep Kochabua was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1962. He immediately gained recognition at the highest ranking University in the country, , Silapakorn University. After having spent some years as Art Director of an Ad Agency, he quickly gathered attention as an emerging force with an unusually high level of talent , skill and productivity within the Fine Arts Community. He establishe himself among the artistic elites and across the board in Asia upon his debut of his first Exhibitions in Bangkok.
Over the past eighteen years Prateep has produced a vast amount of work ranging from his first emergence as a Freelance oil painter to creating a complete and cohesive universe of his own inception. . In Prateep’s world we view an intermediate zone between realism and surrealism, depicting an anfractuous amalgam of his perception of both the perceived and unperceived worlds, all of the realms of perception including dreams, ideas, beleifs systems, and both human and mystical projections of the human experience. His work seamlessly depicts the reflection of the human psyche on said ground.
It is unquestionable that Prateep belongs to the very first rank of contemporary painters. Not only is he technically highly skilled, he also displays a rich appreciation of the human condition in his paintings, a concern with his own life
an a vivid spirit of creativity and nonpareil artistic sensitivity he is able to execute on to the canvas.
At this turning point in our world history as Asia is becoming the wave of the Future, the key point and melting point of the Kingdom of Thailand has produced an Artist of exquisite taste and deep insight into the human condition. Prateep’s pure force of spirit and Visionary Works are notable in multi layered facets and are sure to be noted and highly prized far into the future. His works have already become Collector’s Items for the sophisticated connosseurs, and with his formal Debut on to the Western stage, is sure to gather immediate appreciation and coveted highly.