Happy Painting Gallery is an art gallery opened by an artist Stéphane Delaprée, born in France and raised in Canada. He arrived at Cambodia in 1994 only with the painting tools. He started getting interests on the Cambodian’s lifestyle. One year after, he started to draw the Cambodian’s lifestyle on his canvas. During his first exhibition in Phnom Penh, his works were sold out in just two hours. After that, he decided to make his own art gallery to introduce more of his works to the people. The biggest reason why it is named as Happy Painting Gallery is because of Cambodians’ pure and natural smiles. All of Stef’s artwork depicts smile and happiness of every creature, people and animals which makes the audiences feel happy too. He said “They are healing paintings”. His artworks are also well known for his cartoonish depictions of the Cambodian life. Stef’s artwork are sometimes painted by Cambodian women who are specially selected by him. Skillful workers are given an outline of the drawing by Stef, and they color inside. Stef is providing them with skills and jobs which is giving fair income. His artworks are also on T-shirts, silk, paper or post card. His artworks inside Cambodia is significant in terms of introducing unique techniques of visual art in Cambodia, and giving opportunities to skillful Cambodian Women to learn techniques in drawing and painting. Because of these reasons, his works are already well known to high class people in Cambodia, but he said his goal for the future is to let more people recognize his artworks and be healed by them with happiness. Also, He said he would continue to paint his iconic scenes of the everyday Cambodian life.
363 Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh
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