Tibet is one of those exotic places, still lost in time, and a place that few people will actually experience, first hand.  It is both isolated and forbidding with its high altitudes that can actually make visitor, who are not used to the thin air, seriously ill, and it can be extremely cold and snowbound.  It is the same kind of thing that Gauguin did when he went to the sout sea islands to paint.  When you really think about it, there is actually a limited amount of paintings that will ever be done, chronicling the Tibetan area and its peoples.  Indeed, few artists have ventured to the area to paint, and those who have, stay for one painting, add the notch to their belts, and never return.  Thus, there is a really shortage of supply, in the supply demand equation.

Yet, art from Tibet, and the reality that it is a scarce commodity, is not a large part of the public awareness.  For example, when I look at key word search data from search engine analyses, comparing wall art to Tibet art, Tibet art accounts for less than one percent of searches for wall art.  The lack of demand makes up for lack of supply by setting a market price that is relatively low.  It is an undiscovered niche market within Chines and Asian art and represents a great opportunity for investment.

We believe in this niche and the artists who have braved the obstacles to (approx. 17.5" x 25").  You can see more art by Dapu (Ai Min Zhang), who is living on the border of China with Tibet and devoting all of his time to paintings of the region, its lifestyle, and its peoples, on the Dapu Page of the Leona Craig website.  We also have paintings by Jian Bai Xu and Jin Ming Lee of topics from Tibet.



I like this painting, not only because it comes from Tibet.  It is a beautiful little landscape painting with subtlety and life.   The girl is in an awkward, yet somehow, graceful pose.  The colors, in the foreground, spruce it up and complement the colors of her clothing.  The little lamb looks like he is curious of the onlooker, outside the painting.  The sheep in the center lead your eye back through the rest of the painting to discover the cows, more sheep, and another person by the tent residence, which even has the laundry hung out on a line.  Then, as your eye scans the mountains on the right and is led along the range to the left, you discover yet another herd.  You can get a better look at a picture of this painting and other paintings of the Tibetan region by Dapu on the Dapu Page.