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Auction at Annual Dinner raises £801 Many thanks to everyone who submitted a bid in the 'silent auction' that took place during the Annual Dinner on Friday October 18th, 2002. The auction raised the excellent sum of £801. In view of the success of His Excellency Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup's 'Walk for Health', it has been decided to donate the money to the Bhutan Health Trust Fund. Michael Blooman A.R.C.A. Michael Blooman travelled widely in Bhutan on five expeditions between 1991 and 1995 and painted a series of watercolours. This watercolour of Taktsang Lhakhang was painted in 1991 before the fire of 19 April 1998. Taktsang Lhakhang, the ‘Tiger’s Lair’ as it is known, clings to a precipitous cliff some 2,600 feet above the valley and is believed to be where Guru Rinpoche flew on the back of a tigress to bring Buddhism to the Paro valley. Michael Blooman studied painting at the Royal College of Art in the early 1960s. He was a lecturer at Maidstone College of Art and recently retired from teaching Art at Brentwood School. He is presently painting a series of watercolours of Yunnan and also enjoys working in Italy and along the fossil coastline near Lyme Regis. He has a particular interest in relief print-making and works with an Albion press in his studio at Wickham Bishops. His first one-man exhibition in London was in 1975 and his work is in public and private collections.  Taktsang Lhakhang Watercolour by Michael Blooman A.R.C.A. Image 28cm x 36cm, framed 47cm x 55cm Further watercolours of Bhutan by Michael Blooman, A.R.C.A. are available for sale at his studio in Wickham Bishops, Essex. Tel.: (01621) 892166. |
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