Leaf  painting  is an unique art of Vietnam. With the use of leaf as an unique art material, Vietnamese have brought back  leaf to an eternal life, contributing to art a new breath of air.

     Before presenting in Vietnam, leaf painting have appeared in Japan, China, India with two main forms: Cutting and pasting dry leaf to make leaf paintings or using paint to draw on the surface of dry leaf to make leaf paintings.

     In China or India, leaf painting is made by drawing onto leaf of a number of plants. In this case, leaf play the  role as drawing-paper, artists still have to use paint to finish their art-works. A basic drawback of this art form is: Leaf size is limited so that it will restrict the creative power of artists who require a bigger ground for their art-works.

     In Japan,  Kazuo Akasaki is now famous in the field of  leaf painting art. Many art-schools in this cheery flower country were named after him. Twenty years ago, he was unknown artist in Japan and  lived in misery. But he did not care about that, the only thing that occupied his mind was: Made paintings from dry leaf.  Despite the fact that his household was in major debt and they had angry loan sharks banging on their doors, Akasaki continued to work on his art and his family supported him. When all hope seemed lost, they received a phone call informing them that the following painting had been awarded the “Salon de Paris” at the 1986 Fine-arts Paris Exhibition of Japan: The prize launched Akasaki’s successful art career, giving impetus to his glorious leaf painting art.

     Gazing with veneration at Kazuo Akasaki’s leaf paintings, everybody has to admire his patience and diligence for each small detail in his art-work, some leaf paintings taken him 6 months to finish.

   However, the leaf paintings of the Kazuo Akasaki still exist  restrictions: Limitation in diversified leaf’s colours which cause lookers-on feeling that all of his leaf paintings  are covered with the same typical colour of dry leaf: argent brown which make his art-works look dismal and sad, so that it is  not suitable for decoration in spaces which need more colourful.

     Desiring to introduce Vietnamese Leaf Paintings to art lovers all over the world, our Vietnamese Leaf Paintings workshop has inherited    peculiars from Japanese and Chinese  leaf paintings and bring it to a high level of art. Working with industry,cleverness and creation, we had tested practically hundred  times to find new method for leaf treatment which can keep dry leaf with  original colour and long-lasting existence with the test of time. Making the utmost effort, we have gained great result for manual leaf treatment by temperature factor. With this new method, we can keep some dry leaf with natural  colour: yellow, white, green,…not need to use pigments. Some colours which we can not create by manual leaf treatment, we had have to use pigments to dye. In the time to come, we are in progress to use 100% natural colour leaf( after manual treament by temperature,…) in our unique leaf paintings.