ARTIST STATEMENT

In my current work I am exploring and creating sacred tantric art for meditation purposes.

Currently, I am reimaging Tara, the Tibetan female Buddha in pastel, watercolor, monoprints and nihonga pigments. My study of thanka drawing and painting began one summer at the Tibet House with contemporary master painter Pema Rizen.To create thanka painting the artist works in a defined grid and the positions, facial features, mudras, and landscape settings are pre-determined by centuries of paintings.