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www.NepalDog.com Visit the blog at NepalDog.typepad.com I call Asha the ‘Dog’s Dog’ painter. His Danger Dogs are realistic and masculine. He always paints on a blue background, sometimes using a baked-on blue metal, other times he paints the background blue. I quickly ordered a dozen more!TRANSCRIPT
Danger Dogs from Nepal – Folk Art from the Himalayas
www.NepalDog.com Visit the blog at NepalDog.typepad.com
Asha Arts
I call Asha the ‘Dog’s Dog’ painter. His Danger Dogs are realistic and masculine. He
always paints on a blue background, sometimes using a baked-on blue metal, other times
he paints the background blue.
My fourth trip to Nepal for the Danger Dog Project, I called ahead to let him know I’d be
coming by to give him some work. Someone answered and said that he had moved to
Saudi Arabia for a 3-year contract. Needless to say, I was hugely disappointed, but went
to the studio anyway and ordered 4 signboards. When I went to pick up, I realized that
Asha was the business owner and the portraits had been done by Nara!
I quickly ordered a dozen more!
Asha Studio is hard to find. Asha studio is in the Jyatha District near Thamel. I found
him on my first trip. I sent a local who had lived in Kathmandu almost 30 years to find
him -- with good directions and pictures of his street -- and she couldn’t.