Artist: Philip Sugden
Title: Thyangboche Monastery, Himalaya Nepal
Medium: Graphite on Archival Moleskin paper
Height (inches): 16
Width (inches): 20
Depth (inches): 1
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: back
This piece is framed.
Description of piece:
I drew this during my 12th journey to the Himalayas where I do a lot of drawings on location. Thyangboche is the monastery where my wife and I were married in 2007. Over the many years of visiting here since 1979, we have gotten to know the Lama and several of the monks. We met up with Sir Edmond Hillary here and worked with him. He sponsored our membership with the Explorers Club.
Artist bio:
Philip Sugden studied art in Paris under French master, Arnaud D'Hauterives, (winner Prix de Rome). Since graduation from the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris American Academie des Beaux Arts, Sugden has made twelve journeys throughout the Himalaya and Tibet creating drawings on location. For six-months in 1988, he and his wife Carole, were guests of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, during which time they completed research and filming for the PBS documentary and companion book, “White Lotus,” (Snow Lion Publ.). During those 6-months in India and Tibet, Philip completed 160 location drawings. Based on their experiences in Tibet and the Tibetan refugee communities in those regions, they were awarded grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1991, the Dalai Lama was their guest for two days in their home near Findlay, Ohio, where the Dalai Lama also made a visit to Phil’s studio. In 2000, Philip’s drawings were published in a large format book entitled, Visions from the Fields of Merit. His studio work has focused more on conceptual-realism using his experiences to explore such ideas as transformation and interconnection. In May, 2019, Philip was nominated to be the first visual artist to have his name on the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts, “Artists Wall of Fame,” in Findlay. His work has been shown in more than two-hundred exhibitions in museums and galleries internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Washington DC, Melbourne, and Kathmandu. Phil is currently working full-time in his studio and is a professor of studio art at Bluffton University. Finally, Phil, along with his wife Carole, have been producing and directing a documentary film entitled, “Activismo; Art & Dissidence in Cuba.” (3-minute trailer at http://www.floatingtempleproductions.com). With a small film crew in Havana, they have been working with Tania Brugeura and other Cuban dissident/activist artists. The documentary should be ready for screening and film festivals in the winter of 2019.