On location Painting by Simon Bird
To promote the use of art for raising awareness about the developing world

Mosquito coast & volcanoes 2003


Costa de la mosquitia, Honduras.

Canoe returning to remote Garifuna village after picking up supplies from our cargo boat. No road link for a few hundred miles along this coast. Most important to them is fuel for running generators to make ice and watch TV.

Ink & watercolour on handmade paper 175/100 cm
by Simon Bird £ 250

Momotombo volcan vista, Nicaragua.

A good half days trek to get to this point.

nk and watercolour on paper 33/22 cm
by Simon Bird £125

Masaya Volcan, Nicaragua.

When the Spanish first arrived here they witnessed human sacrifices. People being thrown alive into the red hot crater.

Ink & watercolour on paper 33/22 cm
by Simon Bird - sold

Zocalo, Mexico city.

Names added by local government street cleaners.

Ink & watercolour on handmade paper 95/65 cm
by Simon Bird £100

picture by locals

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Uganda
Karamojaland Uganda 2007/8
Film: 'Karamoja Faces' 2008/9
Article: Karamoja CHOGM 2007
Czech Rep. & Slovakia
SlovakGypsies 2006/8
Article: Gyspies revisited 2008
Czech Panelák flats 2006/8
Central America
Panama & Suez Canal 2005
Mosquito Coast 2003
Egypt
Monster or Mummy 2004
Asia
Yunnan & Szechwan 2000
Cambodia mines & monks 2001
Vietnam central & North 2000
Laos & Thailand 2000
Southern Africa
The coast of Mozambique 1998
The highlands of Lesotho 1998
South America
Altiplano in Peru & Bolivia 1996
India
India & Ladahk 1994/7

Matriarchal Project
by Simon & Kateřina
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North East India.
Khasi culture 2008
Notes: Khasi Hills
Garo culture 2008
Notes: Garo Hills
Sumatra, Indonesia.
Minangkobau culture 2008
Notes: Minang area
South West Mexico.
Zapotec culture 2005
Notes: Tehuantepec
Southern Panama.
Kuna culture 2005
Notes: Sanblas Islands

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