BIOGRAPHY
ALONGKORN POOCHAMCHOTE
ALONGKORN POOCHAMCHOTE (nickname: Kob)
was born in 1962 in a remote village in the northeastern part of
Thailand. Being one of ten children, the family’s focus was on making
a living from the fields they owned. Art as such did not exist in
their lives but Alongkorn always wanted to become a painter.
After
his years in primary and junior high school, the family managed
to send him to Bangkok at the age of 19 in order to attend University.
He wanted to study art, but because he was the only child they could
afford to send to a higher academy, he had to attend the faculty
for political science at “Ramkhamhaeng” University. This suggested
a more lucrative job for the future.
Throughout his time
at the campus, he would often go to the faculty of art to walk around
and ‘pretend’ that he was one of the art students, and it was during
one of those walks when he decided that he could teach himself how
to paint. And so he did.
After his graduation in 1985, he
had various jobs in Bangkok mostly in the hospitality business and
quietly used his free time to paint at home.
In 1996, he
got the chance to display three paintings in a restaurant in Bangkok
and they were all sold a few days later to an Australian visitor.
This
was a turning point in his life and Alongkorn then decided that
he’d focus on art for the future.
Relentless practicing and
working followed and his pieces are now in possession of a clientele
as far-ranging as South America and China.
His work, generally
abstract-modern oil paintings, is mostly inspired by life, psychology
and Asian thought.
Alongkorn now lives and works in Phuket, Thailand.