Elsie Evans

Attic Studios is the place where artist Elsie Evans works and teaches in Bangkok. Born in Scotland, Elise has lived in Asia for more than 20 years and has been a regular contributor to the Bangkok art scene. She runs Attic Studios where you can see her teaching or painting most days.

Self effacing, modest and totally open to new ideas and inspira- tion, Elsie is a free spirit who has found her own path to artistic expression. Along the way she has mastered a number of expressive techniques and disciplines while discovering which of a number of styles might one day be her own. That journey of discovery as she says has probably been the hardest and at the same time, the most rewarding too.

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Born in America but raised in Asia since the age of 7, multi-cultural Leilani Franklin-Apted (aka Lala) returns to painting with the support of Attic Studios and a renewed energy from being in a studio setting. With a happy passion for art history and a Bangkok-based career in fashion and textile design, Leilani can also be found teaching drawing and painting at Attic Studios where the Saturday children’s workshops help keep her young!

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Ben Hamburger

Ben Hamburger is an oil painter whose work mostly revolves around the human form, capturing the essence of his subjects in vibrant intensity using vigorous brushstrokes. American born and raised outside of Washington D.C., Hamburger got his BA in Visual Arts from Eckerd College in Florida where he began teaching painting, and was involved in a number of group exhibitions, as well as one man shows. Hamburger came to Bangkok to continue painting as well as teaching where he came upon Attic Studios and was immediately impressed by the quality and practicality of the lessons and was won over by the First Friday event. Ben can now be found teaching children’s as well as adult classes at Attic, or busy in the studio working on one of his large-scale, emotionally charged canvases.

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Weerasak Booncher

Wee is a phenomenal artist, who has received his BA in Art,  concentrating in Thai paintings, from the Academy of Art in Bangkok.
He has been painting for over ten years. His art has won awards and has been shown in exhibitions all around Bangkok.  He is confident in a variety of media, including acrylic, water color, oil, screen printing and mosaic, and has spent five years painting murals of the history of Buddha in temples throughout Thailand.  After his experience at the temples Wee spent time concentrating on polishing his own painting skills while traveling around Thailand utilising the country’s diverse landscapes.  He has also worked with advertising firms designing sets and art directing.  He now spends his time painting at the art studio as well as running children’s art workshops in Thai.

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Richard Weaver

Richard ‘Dicky’ Weaver, first set foot on Siamese soil over a decade ago.  Fresh from a six-year stint in the art schools of Great Britain (Swindon College of Art & Kingston University, London), he saw the exotic east as a place where he could chase his dreams of becoming a Gauguin for the 21st century.

Unfortunately, the natives did not share his vision.

Weaver chooses to draw, or paint in either oil or acrylic paint; his chosen subject matter is the human form. Richard’s knowledge of the old masters’ oil techniques and academic drawing are extensive, but he prefers to work in a more fluid manner so as to keep images from becoming over worked.