Abdullah Suriosubroto (1878–1941) was the painter who decided Java was too beautiful not to document obsessively — and spent his career proving himself absolutely right. One of the founding figures of modern Indonesian art, Suriosubroto studied in Europe, absorbed the techniques of Western academic painting, and then came home and used them to paint the Indonesian landscape with a loving, almost reverent attention that nobody else had brought to it before. Mountains, rice fields, rivers, and forests rendered in a palette that makes you feel like the air smells different just looking at them. In counted cross stitch, his lush, atmospheric landscapes translate into designs of extraordinary colour and depth. Browse our Abdullah Suriosubroto cross stitch kit collection and choose a premium Suriosubroto cross stitch kit or download a Suriosubroto cross stitch pattern instantly.
