Watercolor on paper , 5” X 8.25”— plein air study, Bhutan, 2024

A quiet, contemplative study of the Yeshe Tsogyal Dakini cave near Paro Taktsang — the sacred Tiger’s Nest. Painted with a restrained palette and spacious brushwork, this watercolor reflects the stillness of a place revered for centuries as a seat of practice, devotion, and retreat.

The cave is suggested rather than described, emerging from layered earth tones like a memory or a whisper. A single window glows gold from within — a gentle beacon of interior light, spiritual clarity, and the presence of human practice inside ancient rock. Here, the landscape takes on both physical and symbolic weight: stone as witness, silence as architecture, and one small dwelling shining softly against the immensity of the mountain.

This piece carries the intimacy of a moment spent in a sacred place — listening, breathing, looking. A study of retreat and refuge, painted on site in 2024.