Epoh travelled to Dharamasala in northern India in 1992 to spend time in the Tibetan refugee community. She stayed in a Tibetan monastery for four months. Epoh was travelling in the footsteps of her great great uncle, Reginald Beech, who lived on a houseboat in Kashmir. He was a Great Gamer (a spy for the British Government in the Himalayas) and a photographer during the late 19th century. He had travelled with Colonel Francis Younghusband on his expeditions. Whilst Epoh was in Dharamsala she met many remarkable Tibetan monks and nuns, several of whom had been badly tortured in Chinese prisons. They would tell Epoh their stories while she drew them. These works were painted out of love the Tibetan people and out of respect for their immense wisdom and compassion in the face of the enormous suffering they had endured.
Paintings
- Bagdro
- Crowded cell
- Dolma La
- Jampa Puntsok oil on linen
- Kelsang Pelmo oil on linen
- Three Tibetan monks
- Tibetan healing
- Tibetan man
- Tibetan monk and azalia
- Tibetan woman and Gulpa la
- Torture Painting 1 Nwang Chen
- Torture Painting 11 Electric Cattle Prods
- Torture Painting 111 Hungary Dogs
- Torture Painting 1V Forced Blood Extraction
- Torture Painting V Forced Abortion
- Torture Painting V1 Exection of A Tibetan Abbot
- Torture Painting V11 Baghdro Suspended
Prints
- Etching Kalachakra seed symbol and peach stone
- Etching of Ngywang Chen
- Monoprint monk with lamb
- Monoprint Monk with daffs
- Monoprint monks head
- Monoprint of Bagdro
- Monoprint Peach
- Monoprint three heads
- Monoprint Tibetan monk with candle
Drawings
- Drawing ‘Compassion in Exile’
- Drawing of a Tibetan man
- Drawing of Bagdro
- Drawing of Kalsang Pelmo
- Drawing of Ngwang Chen
- Drawing of Penpa
- Drawing of Tenzin Desel
- Jampa Puntsok
- Ngywang Chen
Exhibition at The Turtle Key Arts Centre, London SW6
- Turtle Key June 93
- Turtle Key June 93
- Turtle Key June 93
- Turtle Key June 93
- Turtle Key June 93
- Turtle Key June 93
- Turtle Key June 93
- Turtle Key June 93 Monoprints