PABHA

During my first one-man art exhibition in 1987, computuer and internet were not as popular as today in Singapore. Potential buyer viewed paintings at art gallery or at art exhibition and they bought paintings there.

At the beginning of 90's, more people began selling and buying art with the aids of computers and internet. Friends suggested to me using digital medium to record painting images in CD, but I did not do so, I still recorded my painting images on films and slides at that time.

In 1998 when I was preparing art exhibition catalogue for my one-man exhibition at the Alliance Francaise de Singapour. I witnessed the importance of using computer when I was checking the texts and design of my art book which was to be launched at the exhibition. Luckily, I had a friend Kok Siong helped me for the design of the catalogue with his coomputer at that time. Soon after the art exhibition I bought my first compouter and I started learning how to send and receive email. I also had my first Sony floopy disk digital camera at that time.

I remember the first time I sold my painting by just emailing digital image to buyer and then the buyer confirmed the acquisition via email without even a need to view at the actual art work personally before acquisition was full of joy. I really enjoyed the positive results of using digital images, computer and email. Since then, I have my website at http://prabhakara.com and later, Pabha Creation website at: http://pabha.com

Now a day, in addition to the traditional ways of buying and selling art via galleries and exhibitions, more people buy and sell art works online, they view images of original art works online at their own convinence. They buy art and pay their purchases online via PayPal or by funds transfer online.

The patterns of buying and selling paintings and artworks have already changed for a long time with the progress and popularity of internet, digital medium and computer worldwide.

(The photos above were taken at my first one-man art exhibition in year 1987.)