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Tirthas: The Thin Place Where Earthly and Divine Meet, An Artist’s Journey Through India
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- Because of New Age boom and popularity of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love, Americans have deep fascination with India/look to the East for spiritual sustenance.
- 1+ million Americans travel to India every year. 4+ million people of Indian descent live in the U.S.
- Indians comprise about 1.4 million people in UK; that number is just shy of a million in Canada.
- India itself has more than 1.3 billion people, and the country is currently experiencing a book boom; the sector has been growing by almost 20% a year.
- Dana Westring was born/raised in Nebraska and currently resides in Virginia. He graduated from Hasting College with a BA in Studio Art and he worked as art director at an international architectural/interior design to designing and painting trompe l'oeil murals around the world. A majority of commissions were in the Middle East for members of the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia and the Royal Household in Jordan.
- He has 75K+ followers on social media.
- Apprenticed under the late James Perkins.
- He has been featured in The Washington Post and Martha Stewart Living and work is often exhibited in galleries throughout the Washington D.C. area.
- Francois Borne is graduate of Universite Paris-Sorbonne.
- Previously int'l Head of Old Master Drawings at Christies. Currently directs his own fine art consulting company in NYC.
- Gayatri Rangachari Shah is VP of Tina Brown Live Media (Asia) - work has appeared in New York Times, the Indian Express, Architectural Digest, Vogue, and Elle and hosts theUncommon Women podcast.
- TIRTHAS exhibition at The Garden Museum in London beginning April 28, 2022.
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