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December 05, 2023
Bishnu lives near Bhaktapur, a magnificent newari town in the Kathmandu valley, which is classified by Unesco as a World Heritage Site.
Although not from a family of woodcarvers, he felt irresistibly attracted by wood carving since his childhood and started to learn from a teacher when he was eighteen.
His work is of extreme delicacy, with impressive sharpness and balance.
He is one the best woodcarvers in the Kathmandu valley and highly in demand. He is currently working on a massive relief of a monastery in China, which will take almost 2 years to complete.
For his exceptional work, he received the National Fine Art Award in 2022 and the Fine Arts Special Award in 2023.
November 29, 2023
Coming from a family of sculptors and born in the village of Bungmati where this profession is traditionally practiced, the artist Suresh Lawat Tuladhar began sculpting at the age of eleven. He skillfully perpetuates the age-old art of wood sculpture, so specific to the Newari, an art that his father practiced and taught him.
Each sculpture requires months of meticulous work, meditation and maturation, in order to transform the precious wood of the champaca magnolia into a work of art and devotion. The magnolia champaca is a very solid wood, renowned for its longevity, resistant to termites and of a high quality finish: this majestic wood, with ivory tones, lights up in the light of the setting sun with almost ocher tones.
Suresh does not produce a work to respond to a commission but pursues his inspiration. He favors quality over quantity. Thus, each sculpture is unique, emotionally charged, carved from a single piece of wood and reflects all the demands and passion that Suresh confer to his art.
Syncretism of art and spirituality, the carvings of Suresh Lawat Tuladhar are unique and of a great complexity of design.
In recognition of his exceptional work, he received two national awards for two of his sculptures by the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts: for the best traditional sculpture in 2020 and as a special award in 2022.