Two Buddhist painters team up for Quercia Gallery’s May show. Victoria Whitehand, lama of the Kagyu Takten Puntsokling Tibetan Buddhist sangha, and Sandy Eastoak, longtime Zen student and editor of Dharma Family Treasures: Sharing Buddhism with Children, are showing recent paintings exploring their own unique views of compassion and mindfulness.

Victoria's spiritual journey has taken her inward, following Pema Chodron's advice, to "the places that scare you":  first, to a Tibetan three-year retreat and now, through the medium of watercolor, to explore caves and canyons.  Deep within the innermost recesses of the earth she has found endless light and brilliant color.

Sandy’s path has led away from the strict formality of Zen into something less definable and more Native. Her meditative, shamanic process of watercolor and acrylic painting takes her into the shapeshifting world of animal spirits. Out in the intricate realm of our animal kin she discovers music of kindness and mystery.