"Torch Ginger" Print - Phan Nguyen Barker

"Torch Ginger" batik painting on silk print by Phan Nguyen Barker Multi-Arts, Inc. 1986 all rights reserved, printed in Hawaii Image Height: 18.375" Image Width: 13" Paper Height: 27" Paper Width: 18.25" Originally a batik painted on silk and now available as ink on paper poster print. Phan Nguyen Baker says of her first days in Hawaii, “Never in my life did I see more beautiful, beautiful flowers, foliage, ocean, so I began painting—painting flowers like crazy.”   Born in Vietnam in 1946 in the village of Tu Chau, north of Hanoi, she fled with her father and siblings to South Vietnam and grew up during the years of the Vietnam war.  As a young adult, she worked as an interpreter for an Air Force chaplain, Father Cain, who encouraged and assisted her to travel to America to study.   She left her father and family behind, with hopes of helping them follow her, but her father died in a re-education camp only six months later.  She settled with family of Father Cain in Arizona and, after