About the Artist
Rizwan Baran is a painter based in Bangkok working in acrylic on canvas. Her landscapes are painted from memory and feeling rather than direct observation, producing places that feel familiar but resist location. She is drawn to the threshold hours: the long minute before sunset, the moments after rain, the quiet light before a day begins.
Her work moves between two registers. In her representational landscapes she builds atmosphere through restrained palettes, layered glazes, and palette-knife texture in the foregrounds. In her abstract paintings she dissolves landscape into pure gesture and color, returning to the same emotional questions through a different door.
Underlying both is an interest in vulnerability and trust - the way a landscape, like a person, exists between season and change, holding both softness and resilience. Her paintings are made as places to pause.
Her work is held in private collections in Thailand and internationally.
Artist Statement
I paint landscapes of places I haven't been, or perhaps places I’ve only visited emotionally. They start in memory - a coastline I once walked, a hill I saw from a train, a sky I remember from somewhere I can no longer name and I build them slowly with brushwork and palette knife until they become more atmosphere than location.
What I’m ultimately painting is a feeling: the suspended breath of dusk, the softness before rain clears, the quiet moment when light begins to disappear. I’m drawn to states of uncertainty that still feel gentle — the vulnerability that exists alongside trust in something not yet fully known.
My series titles tell on me. Ambivalent. Where the Light Fades. Gratitude. Immersed. They trace the emotional landscape I return to again and again: an openness to not fully knowing, held together by a quiet sense of faith and persistence.
I work in acrylic on canvas, in restrained palettes and layered surfaces. In my abstract works, those same emotional questions unfold through gesture, texture, and color rather than recognizable forms. The two bodies of work feel like parallel ways of speaking about the same inner experience.