The Tower - Artist Tashi Mannox talks about his recent painting

An unusual subject for @Tashi-Mannox This magical montage of East and Western style and technique is explained within this video:
The subject is a typical Western fortress like tower with battlements, standing proud upon a hill along the Wye Valley of the Brecon Beacon National Park. Initially built as a folly on the Moor estate. This relic of former times has recently been renovated into a splendid holiday let - in which this artwork will hang.
The application is more typical of Tibetan Thangka painting style, especially of the clouds and their miraculous hues, using a super matt acrylic paint of high opacity. Though a more western painterly style is applied to the landscape.
The composition of this piece is not bound to any particular time of the day, or correctness in physical location. Facing the setting sun of the East and chased by the moon in the sky. Morning mist, which so typically hangs in the river valley, is seen rolling up to form clouds, framing the tower, which unlike Thangka painting, perspective is observed within the composition.
The artwork is not intended to be a photo real depiction of Moor Tower in its surroundings near Hay-on-Wye, but more mystical, bending the rules of content and composition. As we may say ‘artistic licence’.
background sound-track 'For the Earth, A song from Bhutan' by Gary Azukx Dyson.
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Hi Tashi, I have just sent you a message on Facebook. It's great to hear your words of wisdom on RUclips. You are an excellent teacher. More please.
Have you considered collaborating with Arabic calligraphers? Your style in this painting and the Muslim-looking tower sounds like that would be a marriage made in heaven! Islamic calligraphy is everywhere in the Muslim world, and a good place to start could be Morocco. I have lived in Morocco and am studying Darija and Islam now that I am a Muslim as well as a practicing Tibetan Buddhist.
Un abrazo hermano,
Martin Zopa (BarefootShaman)