National parks, hotels, hospitals and conservation organisations commission him to paint walls, exhibitions and scientific plates. Every species on them is checked against the scientists who study it.
National parks, hotels, hospitals, visitor centres
One wall, painted on site, showing the species that actually live where the wall stands. Every animal is checked with the scientists who study it, and named, so the wall can be read as well as looked at.
About two weeks for thirty square metres
Conservation organisations, researchers, publishers
Plates of a species, drawn to the proportions and the behaviour the science describes. Used in campaigns, reports and field guides. He has done this for the WWF, Free The Bears, Wildlife At Risk, Save Vietnam's Wildlife and Re:wild.
Quoted per plate
NGOs, schools, science centres, museums
A whole exhibition, from the argument to the panels to the objects visitors handle. Built around one question and answered in a sequence, so that a child of six leaves with something they can repeat.
Quoted per project
Schools, hotels, companies, families
He teaches how to look at an animal before drawing it, then how to draw it. Run through Le Petit Musée, the workshop he founded with Lê Quỳnh Huệ in 2019, for children and for adults.
Half a day, or a series
I studied the proportions of each species very carefully, their behaviour and their habitat, with conservation scientists.
Cát Tiên National Park
Bidoup Núi Bà National Park
Hospital of Tropical Diseases
WildBird Hotel
WWF
Free The Bears
Wildlife At Risk
Save Vietnam's Wildlife
Re:wild
Also commissioned by Tràm Chim National Park and Tangkoko National Park, Indonesia.
WildBird Hotel, Tràm Chim National Park, Đồng Tháp
740 × 420 cm, 31.5 m²
WildBird Hotel is a hub for bird lovers at Tràm Chim, in Đồng Tháp province, in the
Mekong delta. They asked for one wall.
The mural shows the wetland of Tràm Chim with 72 of the park’s 260 bird species,
painted in house paint and acrylic over two weeks of February with Hà Thanh Thịnh, and
Bùi Minh Nguyệt. Different moments of the year are gathered into a single frame: males
in breeding plumage perch beside birds that are not, and yellow-eyed grass is in full
bloom, though these never happen at the same time.
The hard part was perspective. The birds had to shrink and rise correctly, and the
colours, shapes and lines had to lead the eye into the painting as if the viewer were on
a boat going in.
It is made to be used. Birdwatchers check their list against it, students learn the
names and the behaviours, and guests simply look at it while they wait.
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