Summer Solstice Sun

Especially created on the Summer Solstice of ☀️ 2022 ཕྱི་ཟླ་༦ ཚེས་༢༡ – ༢༢

To wish you all a resplendent summer དབྱར་ཉི་ལྡོག་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།

A style of a radiating sun as typically depicted in traditional thangka painting. In old time Tibet, gold powder paint was generally used, as gold-leaf was a very rare commodity.

Drutsa Tibetan calligraphy below translates as summer solstice.

This small illuminated artwork is one of the ‘Little Gem Series’.

Issued with this artwork is a Certificate of Authentication with description, which serves as provenance, as well as a recipe of value for insurance purposes.