Correspondent
Reporting Bangkok to the global Urban Sketchers blog since 2008, one of the community's earliest voices from Southeast Asia.
Fifty years of drawing buildings, then the people around them
Asnee was born in Bangkok and trained as an architect at Chulalongkorn University. He spent close to three decades practising in Singapore before homesickness brought him back. Travelling around Thailand after his return is, in his words, how the sketching really began.
- 1972
Graduates in Architecture from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
- 1970s–2003
Practises architecture in Singapore for nearly thirty years.
- 2003
Retires from practice and returns home to Bangkok. Starts sketching on trips around the country.
- 2008
Becomes an Urban Sketchers correspondent for Bangkok. Co-author of Architects' Sketchbooks, published in Bangkok.
- 2010
Founds Bangkok Sketchers. Sketches with Ch'ng Kiah Kiean in Penang and Tia Boon Sim in Singapore, the start of what became Asia Link.
- 2011
Teaches a workshop at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Lisbon.
- 2012–13
Work featured in The Art of Urban Sketching and An Illustrated Journey.
- 2014
Sets up Urban Sketchers Thailand, the national chapter, in December.
- 2017
Teaches “Penciling Chicago” at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Chicago: the modern cityscape in grey scale with flat-tip lead pencils.
- 2020
Guest on USk Talks episode 11, “Decades of Ink”, with longtime friend Pramote Kitchumnongpan.
- Now
Volunteers teaching art and English in Salaya, and keeps posting a sketch a day.