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ARTIST: namsai k.
COUNTRY: Thailand
EMAIL: namsai.khaobor@gmail.com
CONTACT: https://namsai-k.carbonmade.com/
https://www.facebook.com/namsai.k.illustration
https://www.instagram.com/namsai_k/
Namsai studied animation filmmaking in France for two years before pursuing her career as an independent artist and illustrator. She is now making images and telling stories from Chiangmai, her hometown, inspired by mundanity of life, nature and poetry in many forms.

Her most recent works explore nostalgia, nature along with its relevance to human society through quiet characters and otherworldly settings in watercolor and traditional mixed media.

leaf day

nothing goes as planned
but let us thread along
with light heart

swimmingly

swimming
floating
growing

please consider me a dream

sweet, fleeting, with very soft edges

flower blooms

quietly and surely
with each heartbeat

sometimes friends

good shoes

don't worry, your good shoes will take you to good places

bird flower

i've always thought seed of เพกา (indian trumpet) tree looks like flower.
it has these pretty, delicate wings and it flies.

flower letter

special delivery service!
we deliver only love letters and flowers

empty body of a wasp

a wasp landed on my desk and died.
i made studies of its body and held a funeral through this drawing.

A Creature with No Spine

story, art and book cover illustration by namsai k.
title typography and book design by wunmoon
published by Two in Row Press
2024, 48 pages, 4-color risograph

A Creature with No Spine (ฉัน, แมลง แห่งความสิ้นหวัง) is a comic that explores changing political landscape of Thailand through questions on nonviolence, self-compassion and reconciliation between generations, weaving together fragments of memories and experiences of the artist, as a young Thai citizen and a buddhist practitioner, with surreal sequences.

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More Artwork/Merchandise:

a creature with no spine (animation)
- selected by Wildtype Festival 2023, Thailand
- nominated for best animation short film in Thai Short Film and Video Festival 2023, Thailand
- selected by Grafixx Festival 2024, Belgium

clear water

seeing myself clearly
for the first time

tiny marching band

heart serenade

calendar 2026

new set of cute, light and fun illustrations for personal calendar 2026 project
hopefully it brings you joy as you put up new print each month ^-^

shape, form and essence of pink and blue

self-published comic
2024, 72 pages, full-color digital print
first published digitally via ShortBox Comics Fair 2023

Pink starts high school with a quest of finding happiness and meets Blue, a strange classmate who seems to know exactly what she wants in life. Pink follows Blue to the school’s art club and they become best friends from day one. Come along on this poetic journey as they figure out where they belong in the world.

joy/pain

lovechain

sketchbook spread

uninvited flowers

sketchbook spread

flower, graphite and paper

cheers to flowers and joy of making things (by hand, preferably)

original thinker 1

original thinker 2

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REVIEW

อะเดย์

Thailand
Namsai’s work brings a feeling of nostalgia, reminding viewers of childhood imagination and growing up. This is shown through the colors and the way the composition is arranged. The piece has a sense of roots and includes insects, which symbolically represent growth and change throughout different stages of life.