In his deeply spiritual and breathtakingly beautiful paintings of the Tibetan culture and landscape, Taiwanese artist Terry Wang opens a proverbial curtain to a window into a foreign land little seen by outsiders.  Documenting his yearlong journey through the harsh climate of mountainous Tibet, Wang painted the scenery around him, taking note of a treasured geography that few people often see.  Although Wang comes from an ancient tradition of ink brush painting, his works convey a decidedly Western influence, incorporating bush strokes, color pallet, and vibrant emotion seen in works by such seminal painters as Vincent van Gogh. Painted en pleine aire, Wang's paintings truly capture the mood and ambiance of a place known to so many only in pictures.

Terry Wang's groundbreaking paintings of the Tibetan landscape and ethnography will soon be published in an anthology.  The artist, who has formally studied painting and sculpture at Guangzhou University, lives and works in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.