SHOWCASE

/ ARTIST / 2025

BKKIF Artist  
ARTIST: Stone Leela
COUNTRY: Thailand
EMAIL: ecofiber_time@hotmail.com
CONTACT: https://www.instagram.com/stoneleela?igsh=bWZhZ2ZsNmdkcXNv&utm_source=qr
Napat Leehapong (b. 1995) is a Thai visual artist and art educator whose work explores emotional memory through symbolism, material, and form. He graduated with a degree in Thai Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chiang Mai University, where he received the Outstanding Thesis Award in 2017.

Balancing his career as a full-time art teacher, Napat continues to develop a personal art practice that blends abstract figures, delicate textures, and expressive linework. His approach often draws on childhood impressions and quiet emotional states — using soft forms and layered materials to evoke a sense of introspection and quiet tension.
His first solo exhibition, Emotion Diary 365 (2019, Chamchuri Art Gallery), presented a year-long reflection on daily emotions. This was followed by Emotional Virus (2022, River City Bangkok), created in response to collective uncertainty and internal change. His most recent series continues to explore inner worlds, using surreal yet approachable forms to reflect vulnerability and resilience.
Napat’s work invites viewers to pause, observe, and reconnect with emotions that often go unnoticed — not as therapy, but as a way of understanding how we carry feeling through time.

Parallel Playground

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
A visual labyrinth of tiny characters caught in a surreal playground of symbols and movement. This piece captures the spontaneous chaos of the inner child, processed through an adult’s restless imagination.

Whispering Beast

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
A dreamlike creature emerges from a field of impulsive marks and textures. The work explores a soft confrontation with fear—monstrous yet affectionate, wild yet quietly composed.

Flowerfield Broadcast

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
A lone pink figure seems to speak or sing among bursts of visual noise. Joy and confusion mix in this landscape of memory, imagination, and overstimulation.

Cloud Noise

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
A cloud-like form hums with untold feelings—gentle, weightless, yet saturated with emotion. The soft palette meets restless marks to create an atmosphere of drifting thought.

Spirit Receiver

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
This figure listens to something unspoken—perhaps from another world, or perhaps from within. With open ears and calm presence, it channels unseen signals into visible texture.

Cotton Climber

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
Climbing through a chaotic pattern of shapes and stairs, a soft character embodies quiet persistence. The journey feels both playful and heavy, like trying to grow up while holding on to wonder.

Thunder Cat Choir

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
A bright feline stands tall amid a symphony of angelic figures and chaotic marks. It doesn’t roar—it listens. Around it, tiny spirits hum like thoughts not yet spoken. This is not a leader, but a witness to inner noise—curious, awkward, and utterly sincere.

Electric Hug

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
Tangled between closeness and static, this piece captures the tension of emotional electricity. The colors vibrate between intimacy and noise—charged, but never cold.

Twins in Static

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
Two figures stand mirrored, enveloped in textured dissonance. There’s comfort and unease in their symmetry—like hearing your own thoughts echo back through someone else.

Golden Witness

Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
A luminous presence observes quietly amid painterly gestures and fading forms. It feels like a memory that hasn’t let go—a figure who watches, not to judge, but simply to remember.