The Forbidden Kingdom
Projects Aims
Since a recent adventure to the wild, remote and extreme Upper Mustang region on the Tibetan Plateau of the Himalayas, I have been inspired to produce an exhibition of work scheduled for September 2012.
This body of work, consisting of 34 paintings, will depict the lives and culture of people living in this region in all their vibrant beauty.
The aim of the exhibition is to raise £10,000 for the area. We plan to work with the organisation DROKPA (see www.drokpa.org ), to “improve the availability and quality of healthcare in their villages and safeguard the future of Tibetan medicine”.
The exhibition will be held in September 2012.
Outstanding photographer Anand Day will join me in exhibiting his work. Established Cornwall based Artist Sans Robinson will also be contributing to the exhibition. Both are experienced, hardy trekkers of this vast mountainous world which they love.
My own work is a narrative of a journey to this remote, inaccessible place which could have been set in Biblical times.
We are honored to have had an experience of this mysterious roof of the world and wish to celebrate it in these fastchanging times.
Focus and Intention
During our stay in Lo Manthang, an audience with the King was arranged, and it was on this occasion that I put to him my idea of an exhibition to benefit Mustang and raise £10,000 for the region, to improve health care in keeping with local traditions.
The project is to raise £10,000 for the Kingdom of Lo [now Mustang] and the funds will be distributed by DROKPA whose “efforts begin with a recognition of the complex natural and human ecology of the areas in which we work, and a desire to help local communities sustain and transform themselves as they deem appropriate.”
Portrait Painter
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