oil on handwoven raw silk 
9”x12”
It has been my great fortune to have worked over several years with my dear friend and colleague Shirley-Dale Easley, training teachers in the remotest regions of Bhutan. I have had some of the most unique experiences of my life on those journeys and look back on them with respect and wonder. The many hundreds of pictures that came out of those experiences were all taken on the first digital camera, a Sony Mavika that took a floppy disk if you can imagine!! While the quality of the photos was not great, the quality of the experiences and the memory of them is stellar.
The TAKSANG Monastery, is one of the most famous in Bhutan, perched way up on the mountain nestled snugly into a small plateau almost 3,000 metres above sea level (800 metres above the valley). The hike up there is beautiful and not insignificant.
 This monastery stands on the site where Guru Rinpoche went to meditate in a cave in 747 AD and over the centuries evolved into the sacred site that it is today, the first of the temples being built in 1508. Standing there overlooking the monastery from the approaching path, I was filled with a sense of peace and wonder that I have never forgotten.
Men in Bhutan wear a Kabney (long scarf worn from the left shoulder to the right hip) whenever they enter either a monastery or government building. This is made from a hand-woven raw silk cloth resembling a course, nubby linen. I mounted this cloth on a wood panel and used oil paints to represent the experience. My intention is to paint a series on my travels throughout Bhutan, and present them along with excerpts from my journal at that time.
I hope you are fascinated.