Hyolmo Pasang

Hyolmo Pasang seeks to incorporate contemporary art practices with his thangka practice. He has been practising this art form for nearly 25 years, wherein he has had the opportunities to paint in many monasteries and gumbas with fellow Himalayan artists. He has been painting thangkas on canvas as well as on walls and decorative structures in these monasteries. He first learnt thangka at the age of fifteen after arriving in Kathmandu from his village. Adopting it at first as a means of survival, he slowly became devoted to the artform as he trained under the master Ugen Dorje and grew more skillful in his practice. He hopes to merge contemporary sensibilities with the more instructional thangka practice to create new meanings and associations. He also supervises younger thangka painters in a thangka art school in Kathmandu.