Home > Artist > Media > Bodhi TV – Thangka’s als spiegel van de geest
Text and Photography by: Didie Schackman
Publication: Bodhi TV, June 2025
Language: Dutch
Bodhi TV - Thangka’s als spiegel van de geest
Home > Artist > Media > Happinez Magazine interview – French edition
Interview by: Marja den Boer
Photography by: Harold Pereira
Publication: Happinez Magazine – French edition, April/March 2017
Language: French
Large interview where Carmen talks about her artwork, passions in life and how she became a painter of thangkas.
Happinez-Magazine-French-interview-Carmen-Mensink-Miroirs-de-l'ame-2017Home > Artist > Media > Happinez 100
In this special, hundred edition of Happinez Magazine (March/April 2017) enriching experiences can be won, such as 2 x 2 private buddhist art day courses in Carmen Mensink’s Art Studio in Amsterdam, including coffee, tea, vegetarian lunch, snacks and all materials. Drawing experience is not needed.
If you didn’t win this time, you can also come to Amsterdam for Individual Thangka Teachings (max. 4 people), or you can invite Carmen to offer a thangka workshop at your place (min. 4 people).
Happinez-Magazine-100e-editie-Carmen-Mensink-winworkshop-march-2017-workshopHome > Artist > Media > Happinez Magazine interview
Interview by: Marja den Boer
Photography by: Harold Pereira
Publication: Happinez Magazine nr 4, 2016
Language: Dutch
Large interview where Carmen talks about her artwork, passions in life and how she became a painter of thangkas.
Happinez-Magazine-Carmen-Mensink-Interview-juni-2016Home > Artist > Media > TV Program NPO Spirit
Recordings for the Dutch television program ‘NPO Spirit’
By: Linda Geerdink
Aired by: NPO Spirit – Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
Length: 16 minutes
Year: 2015
Language: Dutch
TV program NPO Spirit about the Happinez Festival 2015 with an interview with Carmen Mensink about her artwork.
Linda Geerdink interviews Carmen Mensink about her Tibetan artwork
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Materialenlijst-Thangka-Zomerretraite-Loenen-2022Home > Artist > Media > Buddhist Door International
By: Crina Radu, Dakini as Art
Published by: Buddhistdoor International (based in Hong Kong)
Year: 2015
Language: English
Article about the women creating Buddhist Art of the Dakini as Art collective where Carmen is part of.
2015-Dakini-as-Art-International-Buddhist-DoorHome > Artist > Media > Rubin Museum of Art
By: Laura Sloan, Docent and Education Programs Coordinator at the Rubin Museum of Art
Published by: rubinmuseum.org
Year: 2014
Language: English
Article about the thangka art classes that Carmen offers at the Rubin Museum in New York each year, with pictures of the artwork of her students.
Rubin-Museum-Education-Blog-2014Home > Artist > Media > Boeddhistisch Dagblad
By: Editorial department
Published by: Boeddhistisch Dagblad, a Buddhist newspaper in the Netherlands
Year: 2014
Language: Dutch
About Carmen’s Buddhist Artwork and thangka painting.
buddhist-newspaper-interview-carmen-mensink-2014Home > Artist > Media > De Stentor (krant)
By: Kenneth Stamp
Published by: De Stentor Zwolle, a newspaper in the Netherlands
Year: 2016
Language: Dutch
Interview with Carmen about her artwork and the very first thangka workshop that she will offer in her birthplace Zwolle.
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By: Koen Bugter
Broadcasted by: Bodhi TV
Year: 2013
Language: Dutch
Interview with Carmen Mensink about the iconography of the Buddha, recorded during one of her workshops at the Buddhist Festival at Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden (The Netherlands).
Home > Artist > Media > Happinez Magazine 2013
By: Editorial Department Happinez Magazine
Publication: Happinez Magazine nr 5, 2013
Language: Dutch
Interview about Carmen’s large painting project for the Happinez Festival, the biggest festival in The Netherlands.
happinez-interview-carmen-mensink-2013-nr5Home > Artist > Media > Buddhist Broadcasting Channel
By: Jeanette Werkhoven for ‘Hemelsbreed’
Aired by: BOS – Boeddhistische Omroep Stichting (Buddhist Broadcasting Channel)
Year: 2013
Language: Dutch
Radio documentary on the phenomenon of Flying Monks in the series ‘Hemelsbreed’ by the Buddhist Broadcasting Channel (BOS) where Carmen -who is intrigued by this matter and has drawn and painted many of these flying creatures- briefly shares her knowledge about this subject.
Length: 25 min.
