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 ...

SINGAPORE - Two weeks before his death at the age of 81, batik artist Sarkasi Said was still buying paints and attempting new mediums. His daughter Imelda Zahry Sarkasi, 39, told The Straits Times: ...

Wed, March 18, 2020 Published on Mar. 18, 2020 Published on 2020-03-18T10:40:40+07:00 small village in Central Java remains the only hub that produces a special kind of batik that is almost on the ...

Eric Suriyasena Eric Suriyasena has spent decades transforming a centuries old craft into a contemporary art form. His ...

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 ...

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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 ...

STARMETRO'S regular articles on Malaysian artists are always interesting. Asian art is so different to Western art and I personally find the articles very informative. The professionalism of the ...

Batik artist Beth Erlund is a long-timer in the Kingdom of Breckenridge, and she’s never even lived here. From Morrison, Erlund also calls Homosassa, Fla., home and is among the 117 juried artists ...

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 ...

Reviving the art of Batik in Egypt is artist Samar Hassanein’s passion as well as her full-time job “The things I like most about Batik are its natural beauty and bright colours and the fact that each ...