Born in Bangkok, Marsi (1930-2013) was the only daughter of Prince Chumbot Paribatra who began her career as a self-taught artist. She was exposed to fantastic art and surrealism during her studies at Sorbonne University, Paris. Steeped in European art history, she explored fantasy, dreams, mythology and mysticism and participated at Salon des Comparisons, Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris. She found affiliation with fantastic art that explore dreams, mythology, mysticism. bestiary, fables and fairy tales. In the domain of phantasm, Marsi compared them with Hindu-Buddhist deities.

Marsi took interest in Dorthea Tanning and Leonor Fini whose subjects focus on female bodies, erotic pleasures and isolation of women. In Noah’s Ark (1991) and Leda and the Swan (1999), animals and masked creatures mingle with humans and deities. Marsi referred to Greek mythology in which Zeus came to Leda in the form of the swan to seduce her. Scenes of mother earth and goddess worship relate to nurture Gaia which inspired the theme of BAB 2024.
Marsi depicted all kinds of animals with centaurs, chimeras and human-beasts roaming in bacchanalian reverie. She lived in Annot alone with her cats, dogs and canaries in the woods.

Marsi met Salvadore Dali and discussed about her dreams that were mostly figurative with nature, animals and gardens as well as birth, love, old age and death. Marsi was one of the most underrated female artists in contemporary Southeast Asian art.