I travelled in Mongolia in 2018 visiting historic sites in the present-day capital Ulaanbaatar and further afield around the 13th century capital city, Karakorum, which was strategically located on a traditional silk route for migrating nomads and merchants’ caravans.

In 2019 I spent a month in the Altai Mountains and the Gobi Desert with animal herders and eagle hunters and viewing many prehistoric petroglyphs and 8th century carved Turkic burial stones.

My paintings show the country is still a melting pot of shamanistic and buddhist traditions with herders living and working on the vast steppes as they always have in family groups of two or three gers with their livestock. Bactrian camels, horses, goats and yaks feature in these paintings and a motor bike providing transport for a whole family of four! To create the installation, Mongolian Journey, I have mounted five acrylic on canvas paintings onto ‘prayer wheels’ which the viewer can turn and then below those are 5 smaller wheels with traditional Mongolian/Buddhist prayer words which also turn. The paintings and drawings on this website are for sale by contacting the artist using details shown on the Contact page.