Child artists in award-winning form
Thai kids sweep the board at international art contest




Sangkhom Thongme and his star pupil, an obviously delighted Kanya Sampatisiri.

This painting by six-year-old Kanya Sampatisiri entitled The Rainbow and Me won the Japanese Foreign Minister's Award at this year's International Children's Art Exhibition in Tokyo.
Congratulations to students from the Princess Sirindhorn Art Centre at Loei's Sri Songkram Wittaya School and the Art Club for Children run by Sangkhom Thongmee! Together they reaped a total of 570 awards at the 31st International Children's Art Exhibition held recently in Tokyo.

There were in excess of 240,000 entries from 68 countries for the event which was sponsored this year b Nippon Television Network Cultural Society, the Foundation for Art Education and mass-circulation
newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.
The top prize, the Japanese Foreign Minister's Award, went to Kanya Sampatisiri, aged six, of Chitralada School, for a painting entitled The Rainbow and Me. She is only the sixth Thai national in the competition's
31-year history to be bestowed with this honour.
Thai contestants won a total of 44 gold, 96 silver, 183 bronze and 247 Pentel awards. In recognition of the prestige they have brought to the Kingdom, the prime minister will present Outstanding Youth plaques to the gold medallists on Children's Day in January. The silver and bronze prize-winners will receive Outstanding Youth certificates from the Ministry of Education.