Dao Hai Phong’s paintings have a dreamy quality that makes them captivating. While the subjects in his paintings are not distinctive, they are illuminating with a real sense of time and essence of light. Phong’s paintings often capture sceneries just as time is changing from one part of the day to the next – when evening comes, after the rain, as moonlight is at its most glorious. Phong uses dramatic colours, especially his signature vivid blue, and simplicity of structures superbly to this effect. That is what makes the ancient streets of Hanoi, his native city, and the countryside, where his film-making career has taken him to, so novel in his paintings.

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