Welcome to Tibetan Art
Welcome to tibetanart.com - the website of the British artist, author and scholar Robert Beer, who has studied and practiced Tibetan Art for the past forty years. In recent years he has worked closely with the finest Newar artists and Tibetan thangka painters of the Kathmandu Valley to assemble a unique and extensive collection of the finest contemporary Tibetan and Newar paintings of Buddhist and Hindu deities.
The main purpose of this site is to display the incredible skills of these individual artists by making many of their original paintings available as fine-art Giclee Prints, all of which are meticulously accurate in their iconography and detail. Each painting has a detailed description written by Robert Beer, who is working in association with Wisdom Books to produce these archival prints. Also exhibited on this website are some of the the exquisite visionary paintings and mandalas of John Miles. So essentially it is the artists themselves who are represented here, for they are truly some of the most visionary, innovative and divinely inspired painters of our time.
News from tibetanart.com
"VISIONS OF THE DIVINE", London Exhibition, 19 April-26 May 2012
The October Gallery in Bloomsbury, London, is delighted to present a unique exhibition of contemporary masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art, which features the work of some of the most skillful miniature and visionary painters of our time. This show is a sequel to the October Gallery’s successful ‘Radiant Transmission’ exhibition of 2003, and is likewise drawn from the work and collection of the British artist Robert Beer.
Kathmandu - November 2011
Much has changed in the world of Newar art since I was last in Kathmandu twenty months previously. The works of the finest painters are now in great demand, with some wealthy collectors, investors and art lovers in Nepal now seeking to acquire or accumulate their paintings. But given the amount of time needed to produce such masterpieces, this has led to a scarcity of available paintings and a great increase in the prices that individual artist’s can now command for their new works.
More information regarding Giclee Prints
It is now just over a year since we launched this website, and the response to its imagery, content and textual information has been extremely positive, for it is truly a unique site. Recently we have added the full range of my silk-screen prints and sixteen new Giclee Prints to the site, and here I would like to explain a little more about the spiritual, artistic and aesthetic value of these beautiful prints...
Featured Art
White Sukhasiddhi
This painting shows the secret dakini aspect of White Khechari, whose practice is associated with the great eleventh century Indian yogini Sukhasiddhi. As a yidam deity White Khechari is now commonly identified with Sukhasiddhi herself, although as a lineage holder of the Shangpa Kagyu tradition she invariably appears as a clothed, peaceful and white yogini who holds a skull-cup and points to the sky.
Artist : Raj Prakash Tuladhar
Price : £70.00
Dark Mandala - Rhythms of the Universe
This incredibly detailed 6 x 5 foot ‘Dark Mandala’ was painted over a five-year period and signed and dated in 1989. The central core of the composition is like a dense spiral nebula of exploding fragments, or asteroids swirling around a source of light like a swarm of intoxicated moths. Salvador Dali developed a similar technique of explosive chaos when he developed his ‘quantum gun’, which fired thousands of metal tacks and nails into a wooden board. But all of the ‘shrapnel’ in this Dark Mandala are individually painted. As these myriad fragments move out from the centre they begin to coalesce into John’s typical colourful calligraphy of spiral and coiling forms, and lines that curve and arc like sperms, meteors or comets.
Artist : John F B Miles
Price From : £70.00
The Gentle Pulse of Nature
This undated and unsigned mandala was painted in the late 1980’s on the raw and unprimed Irish linen canvas that John always used, and the corners of this five-foot square canvas are empty. The soft interior of the outer halo is sprayed with areas of blue aniline dye, with nebulous spiral structures emerging from the edge of inner mandala with its countless calligraphic spiral and coiling structures. The heart of this mandala emerges from a luminous spiral nebula of stellar forms, and the whole composition has a soft feminine quality that mirrors the gentle pulse of Mother Nature in her most benign and nourishing aspect.
Artist : John F B Miles
Price From : £65.00
Paradise of Amitabha Buddha
Amitabha (Tib. Od dpag-med), the Buddha of ‘Boundless Light’, is the ‘Lord of the Padma or Lotus Family’ who presides over the western direction where his paradise of Sukhavati is located. Amitabha Buddha is red in colour, his seed syllable is HRIH, and he represents the aggregate of perception or discrimination, and the transmutation of attachment into the wisdom of discernment or discriminating awareness. He sits on a peacock throne, his symbol is the red lotus, his gesture is the dhyana-mudra of meditation, his prajna or consort is red Pandara, and his principal bodhisattva or ‘spiritual son’ is Avalokiteshvara. As one of the Five Buddhas he is also identified with the faculty of taste, the tongue, the summer season, evening twilight, and the throat chakra - which is equated with the sambhogakaya aspect of speech.
Artist : Sunlal Ratna Tamang
Price From : £65.00