38-year-old Thai sculptor, Sunti Pichetchaiyakul, placed an impressive 25 out of 1,713 competing artists in ?ArtPrize?: billed as the world?s largest art competition in Grand Rapids Michigan, last month.

Sunti entered his fiberglass resin sculpture, Luang Boo Luan, which has an uncanny similarity to its model from Pataloong, Thailand.

Born in Chumpuang, Nakhon Rachasima, Thailand, Sunti has been a professional artist for the past two decades, and has completed commissioned artwork for over 50 temples throughout Thailand, enhancing their interiors with wall murals, paintings, and sculptures.

Sunti?s work adorns casinos, jewelry shops, museums, and mansions of former senators and congressmen throughout Southeast Asia, and he has worked cross-culturally with clients from Japan, China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and America.

In addition, Sunti holds the world?s fastest quick sculpting record; creating a clay bust in only 25 minutes.

Having relocated to Montana in 2008 with his American wife and daughter, Sunti is quickly developing a reputation for re-instilling life and divinity into Native American Chiefs through his Legends of the Americas Western bronze collection.

His ability to give bronze a skin-like appearance and duplicate his model in indistinguishable resemblance, capturing fine detail, personality, and emotion, is indeed Sunti?s area of expertise.

Sunti is the first Thai ever to show at Yellowstone Club, in Big Sky, Montana ? a millionaire?s club in which very few select artists in the world are eligible to participate.

Sunti will be sculpting the exact likeness of His Holiness the 14th Dalai of Tibet in fiberglass resin and presenting to him during the Dalai Lama's first trip to Montana in late 2011. Sunti has received permission from Gochen Tulku Sang-gnag Rinpoche of the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas, as well as the office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.


For more info on Khun Sunti:www.suntiworldart.com