Hi

having travelled around alot of asia, and south africa, i have found with relative ease, local art, which includes hand paintings, good quality local crafts, wood carvings, statues ( proper carved wooden or shell carvings ), and art made of stone. I really like local, hand painted pictures - not ones done by 'professionals' costing thousands, just ones that cost up to 50 UK pounds.

i have never found anything like this in Thailand. I am sure it is there. normally you just happen to walk by the shop by chance. i am not talking about mass produced tourist crafts or prints.

any ideas please, in bkk?

There is a lot of original art work in the weekend Market, chatuchak all kinds tradicional and modern.

Painting and some carving

This website might be of use to you. I've never purchased anything from this website, but their office/showroom is in Bangkok:

http://www.asiaartmart.com/

Hope this helps.