Her themes involve the traditional aspects of Vietnamese life, expressed in a clear, modern style; women in traditional dress depicted in crisp colours and uncluttered compositions; bowls and chopsticks in horizontal and vertical formats.
The paint is treated with a light touch, allowing the subjects a delicacy that shines from the canvas. As they go about their occupations, in an environment free from external influences, Thuy captures the eternal natures of these women. Thuy also produces semi-abstract paintings of bowls, houses, aspects of Vietnamese existence, suffusing her images with a sense of spirituality, respecting the objects and the manner in which they are incorporated into everyday life. “All life begins from the earth. The bowl owns its humble existence to the Mother Earth. Give it a breath of life, since it has a reason for being. Each being has its own space in the cosmos. Things, also, have theirs.”
