SHOWCASE

/ ARTIST / 2022

Guest Artist  
ARTIST: Jirayu Koo
COUNTRY: Thailand
CONTACT: www.jirayukoo.com
www.facebook.com/JirayuKoo.artist
www.instagram.com/jirayu_koo
I’m Jira an artist/ illustrator who works under Jirayu Koo name. I enjoy making positive visuals inspired from all things around with bold shapes and colours combination. The roly-poly characters in my work are myself in difference versions and that version of me is always seeking an optimistic side of all matters around. I wanted to celebrate it by creating Glom-Glom characters and tell stories through them. I guess it’s my very personal way of dealing with this hectic world, using a positive thought against the ugliness that get crazier these days. And I really hope that my works may bring joy and smile to if not everyone then some.

Vibing

Music always plays an important part when I'm working and this is how I vibe! An illustration piece for URBANEARS alongside my pick of 10 songs list that get me going when I work.

You're my bedroom

An illustration for AP Thai to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Telling stories through each room of a house, this one is for bedroom, a bedroom as a sparkling freedom where I can float freely and be my true self. As well as a place that I can recharge myself and be alive again.

Bangkok Glidin'

A piece for Vespa, showing our Bangkok beautiful chaos that is still charming and inviting everyone to hop on and ride through Bangkok's tiny alleys to discover unseen new/ old corners and have fun!

Summer Blooms

A home decor items in collaborate with Modernform under the Summer Blooms concept. Having my Glom-Glom signature character carries a giant bunch of blooming flowers and ready to hand to anyone she meet in hope that it will be able to make their day blooming with joy too.

A Technicolour Dream

“A Technicolour Dream” is a personal art piece I created to reflect my inner feeling about the current situation that, even though when the reality turns sour and the future is uncertain, I still has hope for brighter days ahead.
Wouldn't you like to join me on this Technicolour Dream journey?

Have a Nice Life!

A book cover design. This Glom-Glom is carrying "Have a Nice Life!" and bringing it to everyone as a present. He hopes that if not all then some thoughts from this book might be able to path a way to a happy and nice life for readers.

UNIQLO x Marni x Jirayu Koo

Playing dress up with my Glom-Glom inspired by UNIQLO x Marni 2022 collection which prints on prints and bold colours are not to be omitted but to be embraced and have fun with.

Awakening Summer Dream

A Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok x Jirayu Koo special afternoon tea edition.

In this strange time that we are all in together has brought us so many uncertainties in life
Sometimes, we don't really know how to handle it physically and mentally.
I myself as an artist, also personally experience this, struggle to balance my feelings toward this unprecedented situation. Lockdown has become a familiar term. One summer, and continues to two has been disappeared. I'm still very much here but at the same time also elsewhere. It seems like I'm floating between a blurred line of the state of being awake and asleep, do not know where to go. I've spent times try to ignore this sentiment
until I realized that it's much more at ease to acknowledge its existence and befriended with feelings of mine rather than against it.

I started to take time for myself when I can genuinely focus on what is matter to me.
Taking deep breaths, listen to my inner self, drawing what has come to my mind at that moment and enjoy what is before my eyes help to keep me at the very present. And I find that has carried me walking in this blurred line much happier.

In this Awakening Summer Dream Afternoon Tea, I would like to invite you to enjoy what is presented in front of you as well as embrace what is inside you. For a moment, allow yourself some time to escape from what you have been carrying through this strange time. Give your inner self space to play and be delighted with what you are about to experience with all your five senses. My Glom-Glom Gang along with Chef's creations will help guide you through this Awakening Summer Dream afternoon tea to see where will this journey be able to take you.

Let's dance

A painting piece for Hoegaarden inspired by David Bowie's tune "Let's dance" to celebrate the month of love.

Hide and Seek

One of the 2 pattern design from a special collection "Little Kookie" for Mother Goose; baby/ kids goods. This pattern called "Hide and Seek" inspired from my 9 months journey before I met my very own muse (Miti, my baby girl).