Danger Dogs from Nepal – Folk Art from the Himalayas

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Asha Arts

I call Asha the ‘Dog’s Dog’ painter. His Danger Dogs are realistic and masculine. He

always paints on a blue background, sometimes using a baked-on blue metal, other times

he paints the background blue.

My fourth trip to Nepal for the Danger Dog Project, I called ahead to let him know I’d be

coming by to give him some work. Someone answered and said that he had moved to

Saudi Arabia for a 3-year contract. Needless to say, I was hugely disappointed, but went

to the studio anyway and ordered 4 signboards. When I went to pick up, I realized that

Asha was the business owner and the portraits had been done by Nara!

I quickly ordered a dozen more!

Asha Studio is hard to find. Asha studio is in the Jyatha District near Thamel. I found

him on my first trip. I sent a local who had lived in Kathmandu almost 30 years to find

him -- with good directions and pictures of his street -- and she couldn’t.