HOM RITH

Hom Rith is a Cambodian watercolor painter born in 1986.

His vocation was born among the painters of the Buddhist temple in which he spent his childhood in the south of the country, in Kampot.

Although painting attracted him, the daily needs of his family did not allow him to take courses in fine arts and forced him to devote his free time to tending cows.

Later, through will and work, he was able to start painting classes and finally become the artist he wanted to be. His works regularly refer to the cow as the symbol of his constrained childhood and to the lotus, a resilient plant that manages to grow through the mud to the surface of the water to deliver superb flowers and feed the population. This lotus symbolizes his hard work, never turning away from his goal.