ISE
Ratinan Thaijareorn a.k.a. ISE is a 24 year old artist born and raised in Bangkok,Thailand. ISE’s beautiful illustrations with aerial rendering style and clever use of pastel colors seem to only show off the gentle female nature; however, if you take your time to notice the intricate details of her paintings, you’ll see layers of symbolism that ISE describes as “visions, illusions, madness, genius and poetry.”
interview by Katya Guseva
Your work is very gentle and airy, almost floating in space… Does it reflect your personality in a way?
I thought that you could tell a lot about my character looking at my work, but actually, it’s more about my mood and emotions… Sometimes if I’m happy I will make my illustrations in pastel colors and flowing, but if I’m depressed, it turns to dark and gloomy colors all of a sudden. But you can tell about my personality if you look closely at the details of my work. Kind of like… delicate and serious.
Why do you always have animals present in your work? Do they symbolize anything?
I believe humans are very much similar to animals. We all have same instincts and feelings: hunger, anger, happiness, agony, lust etc… When there are animals present, I feel my art is complete. Beautiful painting of a woman is fulfilled by the more dreadful painting of an animal.
