Bringing her personal interpretation of Tibetan Thangka art to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Tamara Dawn has been travelling to India for the past 15 years. On August second she brings her personal interpretation of Tibetan Thangka art to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery in a watercolour collection called 'Buddha as a Principle.’  “I was 18 when I took my first trip to the east, I went to Nepal. I went to India when I was maybe 20.  I've been  back and forth several times, going to India and Nepal, and then coming back to Canada and integrating what I learned,” she began.   Cortes Currents: What’s special about India?   Tamarra Dawn: “In my childhood there was a real absence of spiritual teachings.  I was raised as a kind of pseudo-Christian. I have been  baptized, but there were not really any real teachings involved with it,  almost like a surface (Christianity).  I was drawn to the East because of the preservation of tradition and the way that they're alive in day to day life.” “I think my favorite part is the embracing of the chaos and  the embracing of just life being not all clean or pure.  Life is full of the whole spectrum and an appreciation of that, the culture of worship and devotion being present.  I think that inspired me in my life, and then really came through in my art.”