MURAL PROJECTS
Temple Murals and other Buddhist Works
[Phaptawan usually did the designs for and supervised the painting by a team of from six to ten artists].
1999 A Buddhist Series of Tree and Flower Allegories painted during visits to Thailand and China.
1998/99 Commission from the Zen Centre, Annandale for its Gorricks’ Run meditation temple, funded by
the Australia Council, for an altar painting of the Buddha in meditation.
1998 August, brief visit to Thailand to complete designs for a Mahayana Temple in Nakhon Pathom, and
commence designs for a specially commissioned temple scheme by Bangkok Airways at a temple on Samui Island.
1997/1988 Lives of the Buddha Screen entirely executed and completed in Sydney. The work is 1.8 x 4.32
meters overall, on the narrative theme of Buddha’s previous lives and the life of the historical Buddha.
1997 Designs for exterior gables and pediment of Buddha image at Wat Phuttharangsee, Annandale, Sydney
1996 Phutthamonthol Buddhist Centre, near Bangkok [1,200 sq. m., basic designs for 86 panels of 1.8 x
8 meters, Supervisor of five teams each of seven-eight artists, about thirty-five artists overall]
1994-1995 Wat Sri Dongklang, Khon Kaen [100 sq.m.] 1994 Wat Saket, Samui, Surat Thani [complete ubosot,
200 sq.m] 1994 Completed the unfinished work of Acharn Angkarn Kalayanapon at Wat Sri Khom Kham, Phayao [figures
in upper panels and Tree of Life in reredos behind main icon]
1994 Wat Tha Suthawat, Angthong [complete ubosot, 200 sq.m.] for the Royal Support Foundation, these
murals were featured on a special set of Thai postage stamps in 1999.
1992/3 Wat Jaksa Phattaram, Uthai Thani [complete ubosot, 160 sq.m.]
1992 Wat Theppol, Bangkok [mondop, 12 sq.m.]
1991 Wat Ban Chang, Chonburi [complete ubosot, 140 sq.m.]
1990 Wat Sri Kom Kham, Payao, own work on the lower narrative panels only, 220 sq.m.], graciously opened
by H.R.H. Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn in January1993
Hotel & Office Murals
1996 Mural in residence of District Chief Officer, Tak province
1996 Murals in Wimanthip Room, Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok
1996 Murals for The Century Hotel, Bangkok.
1995 Room murals for Laguna Banyan Tree Resort, Phuket
1995 Murals in Bangkok Airways office at Bangkok Airport
1995 Murals in Ballroom, Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok
1994 Murals for Dining Room lobby, Thai Embassy, Paris
1993/4 Murals for Function Room, The Regent of Bangkok, Hotel
1993/4 Lobby and other murals for Laguna Banyan Tree Resort, Phuket
1991/3 Murals for President's Office, Bangkok Airways
1991/2 Lobby mural for the Royal Garden Hotel, Bangkok, 11 x 1.35 meters, on silk
1990 Mural for Thai Airways Office, Paris
1989 Leader of the group painting Sawan / Heaven mural for the Ballroom of The Regent of Bangkok Hotel
1989 Leader of the group painting the Koh Kaew Pisadahl / Magical Crystal mural at the Conference Room
in Cape Panwa Hotel, Phuket
