Sonam Dolma

Sonam Dolma was born in Kongpo in 1954 and spent her first few years high up in the Tibetan mountains. In 1960 she fled with her family to India where she lost her younger sister and her father and worked in road camps until she could join an English school in Simla and later in Dehra Dun. When she was 19 she settled in Switzerland and married a Swiss anthropologist and museum curator. In the late 1980s Dolma’s interest in modern western art grew and she attended classes at the Art Academy in Bern. Her paintings are mainly abstract, illusionary expressions – in accordance with the Buddhist philosophy that says that every appearance is empty and illusionary. She has exhibited in several galleries in Switzerland as well as at the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, Holland.

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