Art in Glass Bottles

Glass bottle painting, the art painted inside glass bottles, is a unique kind of art painting. The first glass bottle paintings appeared in China at the beginning of the19th Century. Most artists can paint on the outer surface of a bottle, but it is not easy to paint on the inner surface. Although it looks like canvas painting, glass bottle painting is a more intricate type of art, which needs to be precise in scale U Nyo Lay from Myanmar, is an imaginative glass bottle artist who taught himself the art.
He suffers from polio since childhood and he became a disable after several freak accidents. Thus the lower past of his body and his right hand and arm are now useless, and he became a wheel chair bound artist working with his left hand only.
But out of his perseverance and dedication he became the first glass bottle artist in Myanmar and his work of art is well known.
U Nyo Lay explained, "Bottle-art depends upon the subject which is going to be painted, and to finish a bottle, it takes at least 15 days. Unlike ordinary painting, it is done in reverse style.