Hanny Widjaja
PARTICIPATING ARTIST
Hanny Widjaja
She was born in Bandun, West Java Indonesia in the year
1954. She loves drawing since her childhood which soon gives rise to painting
later on. Painting for her is an expression of her amazement to the
Almighty Creator, that is why she prefers to paint on realist basis and what
she paints are almost all about nature and it’s beauty such as animals and
landscape, which is presented in oil on canvas or pencil, pastel, water color
and gouache on paper, but in her early twenties she made abstract paintings as
well.
She had her solo exhibition “Save Our Heritage” at Hotel Salak Bogor on June 8 – 15, 2008 and at American Club Jakarta in June, 2009. She got an honorable mention in Indonesian Heritage Society’s First Art & Photography Exhibition “Image of Indonesia” in Jakarta in March 2009 for her painting “Kampong by Ciliwung River”. Her paintings are collected by people from Indonesia and other countries such as Australia, Japan, Columbia, South Africa, The Netherlands, United States and Canada. In everyday busy life as an artist she also teaches drawing and painting.