The wonderful Geisha Exhibition & Buddha Flag painting project at the Museum of Ethnology…
February – Bali & Java, Indonesia
Beauty, art and mysticism on Bali & sunrise at the Borobudur on Java…
January – Singapore Art Teachings
Annual painting classes in Singapore with Mandala of the 5 Elements as subject…
December – Thangka Painting Year Training
December – Thangka Painting Year Training
November – Green Tara & the 21 Taras thangka course
November – Green Tara & the 21 Taras
October – Thangka courses in Venice & Bologna
October – Drawing Padmasambhava in Venice and Buddha Shakyamuni in Bologna
September – Happinez Festival exhibition
September – Happinez Festival exhibition of the 8 Auspicious Symbols artwork
August – Festivals, Paris & the Guimet Museum of Asian Art
August – Festivals, Paris & The Guimet Museum of Asian Art
July – Video on drawing the Buddha Face
July- Create a Tibetan Thangka Painting during the annual Thangka Painting Retreat in Italy
June – Wonderful Thangka Painting Retreat in Italy!
My long thangka painting retreat is held each year in Arco, Trento (Northern Italy). Participants come from many different countries and there are many ways of getting there. We took the slow boat.
May – Sand Mandala in all its different steps
May – The Sand Mandala in progress: from the first grains of sand to the dismantling ceremony
April – What I do besides thangka painting & teaching
April – What I do besides thangka painting & teaching
March – Sri Lanka Buddhist Art Course & sightseeing tour
The very first thangka art retreat on the island of Sri Lanka
February – Preparing for the Sri Lanka Buddhist Art Course!
Art course incl. sightseeing tour in Sri Lanka with subject ‘Guan Yin, the female Bodhisattva of Great Compassion’
Visitors creating a large Mandala with Carmen Mensink during Museum Night
For the visits of HH the Dalai Lama to The Netherlands in 2009, 2014 and 2018, thangka painter Carmen Mensink was asked to create large paintings of the 8 Auspicious Symbols to welcome this special master in her country, according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.