Temple and Street Painting

Gyanmani Ray's name is well known to lovers of Nepali art, be they here or abroad. Anyone who kows Gyanmani's work can see how it reflects his deep love of art, culture and landscape of the Kathmandu Valley and rest of Nepal. After his father taught him at very early age how to paint, Gyanmani honed his skills while at school in Calcutta and later while abroad in France. He learned a lot more about the European style of painting, Gyanmani has now been living in Kathmandu for more than thirty years and he continues to wander the valley and all over Nepal in search of new places to paint. A common thread of Gyanmani's work is his poignant depiction of the day to day lives of Nepali people and the magnificent landscape in which they live. He has done extensive research into the traditional waterspouts of Nepal and for many years has been painting and mapping these before they are lost and forgotten. He is dreaming of one day putting his research and paintings together in a book. While his early works were very detailed and naturalistic, his latest exhibition, Daily life of Nepalese reveals that he is now experimenting with the style and colors of his paintings, with amazing results. The common theme through out his work is his immense love of the mountains and culture of this unique country. In the future Gyanmani would like to exhibit his most recent landscape paintings from around Kathmandu Valley, which are in impressionist style. Mads Mathiasen Promoter Tourism in Nepal (Denmark) GyanMani Ray is a well renowned contemporary artist from Nepal. He has been working in this field for more than three decades. During this time, he has participated in many solo as well as group exhibitions in Nepal as well as in foreign countries like France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, South Korea, Pakistan, India, Japan, South Africa and North America.. In his career, he has helped preserve and protect Nepal’s rich heritage by being involved in various project. One of which is the restoration of art works displayed in the national museum and another project is in which he did extensive research of traditional waterspouts of Nepal and catalogued it through his painting.