Eternal Visions, Contemporary Forms; My Study with an Historic Master of Newar Repousse – Maureen T. Drdak – Nepal 2011
I first visited Nepal in 2005 where I beheld the beautiful repousse temple toranas of the Kathmandu Valley. An ancient endangered art, the Newars of the Valley are universally considered the finest practitioners of repousse—the art of hammering sheet metal into three dimensional forms. When I first gazed upon the ancient fire-gilded copper imagery of […]