A Painting for CAMDA
Next Friday, I'll be featuring the work of Bridget Farmer, a very talented printmaker. After I came across Bridget's work, I discovered that she has an Etsy shop devoted entirely to raising funds for CAMDA (Cambridge Mongolia Development Appeal).
According to their website, "CAMDA was first formed in 2000 as the result of widespread poverty and hardship among Mongolia's nomadic herding communities caused by the dzud that year, which is a climate disaster when a drought summer is followed by a winter of extreme severity. Deep snow accompanied by long periods of ultra-low temperatures (-45C) killed millions of herd animals leaving their owners destitute. News of the first disaster got scant media coverage and John Pirie felt urged to help ease the plight of these herding families. Little was then known about Mongolia, a country still grappling with immense financial deficits, undergoing huge social and economic reforms after 70 years of a Soviet command economy."
CAMDA develops and maintains grass-root projects. These projects include a WSPA-funded Mobile Vet Project (2003-2007) to inoculate essential horses against parasitic diseases. A Well-Refurbishment Project to bring water to remote drought-stricken Gobi regions. They also make grants for simple grass cutting equipment to co-operatives in northern provinces where grass is more plentiful. Horse-drawn mowers or diesel tractors fitted with cutter and rake attachments are loaned to local communities helping boost reserve fodder stocks to help see them through the long Mongolian winter.
I was inspired by Bridget's generosity of time and talent in creating a shop for CAMDA and decided to donated a piece of my work to the shop. This original watercolor painting will be available at the shop once it makes it way to Bridget in Northern Ireland. It depicts the a Mongolian Landscape with a Ger. Nearly all Mongolian herders live in white gers (felt-lined tents, yurt in Russian).
What are your favorite examples of art for a cause?
CAMDA develops and maintains grass-root projects. These projects include a WSPA-funded Mobile Vet Project (2003-2007) to inoculate essential horses against parasitic diseases. A Well-Refurbishment Project to bring water to remote drought-stricken Gobi regions. They also make grants for simple grass cutting equipment to co-operatives in northern provinces where grass is more plentiful. Horse-drawn mowers or diesel tractors fitted with cutter and rake attachments are loaned to local communities helping boost reserve fodder stocks to help see them through the long Mongolian winter.
I was inspired by Bridget's generosity of time and talent in creating a shop for CAMDA and decided to donated a piece of my work to the shop. This original watercolor painting will be available at the shop once it makes it way to Bridget in Northern Ireland. It depicts the a Mongolian Landscape with a Ger. Nearly all Mongolian herders live in white gers (felt-lined tents, yurt in Russian).
What are your favorite examples of art for a cause?
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