Nguyễn Trang Ngà
biography
Graduating from Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 1997 and receiving a Master's degree in Painting in 2006, Nguyen Trang Nga is known as one of the most outstanding silk painters nowadays in Vietnam.
Throughout 20 years of diligently practicing in silk painting, consistent with the Asian figurative and composition, Trang Nga has built her own characteristic style: delicate feminine yet full of dynamic dominant traits, especially her choice of colors - vivid hues juxtaposed with the sombre shades.
Her paintings, mostly still life, captured a frozen moment of fleeting time and invisible whispers of the nature. Flowers and plants take a center stage in Trang Nga’s works, presented with all kinds of nuances: sometimes shy and timid as of the first buds of a season, sometimes glowing, gorgeous as the flowers in full bloom, otherwise decayed, withered as if suffered from ill-treat of the mist and the wind. Either joyful or gloomy, exuberant or sorrowful, the flowers of Trang Nga mesmerized the viewers with their own melancholic beauty, though pure, sweet and poetic, they are softly humming the rhythm of death and cycle of life.