The « Brightness of The Arts » has taken root back in the 1980s in a refugee camp on the Thai border, after the Khmer Rouge Regime devastated Cambodia. There, the French humanitarian Véronique Decrop started to develop a form of art therapy for refugee children, with drawing and painting classes.
After the camp closed years later, Véronique and 9 of her most passionate students decided to found a drawing school back in their hometown, Battambang, to help the marginalized local youth in return. The original drawing school has progressively been transformed over its 26 years of existence into a multi-faceted creative hub, to which 4 of the original founders are still actively commited today.