About The Gallery

"The Elephant Art Gallery is a blend of elephant art, and animal conservation that collectively makes an outstanding contribution to both the conscience and the imagination". Quotation from Inkless Magazine, February 2010.

TEAG produces all its paintings with the elephant artists at the Elephant Art Academy at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center (National Elephant Institute).

TEAG was started in the year 2000 by Henry Quick, the managing director of HQ Group, a company that makes art paper and runs an art gallery in Chiang Mai. We began showing elephant paintings alongside paintings by humans at HQ Art Gallery in early 2000. This was the first commercial art gallery in Thailand to permanently display 'real art' by elephants, so it was quite an adventure.

In 2002 we launched the first and original elephant art gallery website to show this wonderful work to the world. The project began to develop a momentum of its own and the next major development came in January 2006 when TEAG was made into a separate entity. That's when we created this new website not only to sell paintings, but also as an educational tool to promote elephant conservation and art.

Today there are just three people working for TEAG. My name is Issaraporn Kaewthanasawad and I am the owner and managing director. I am Thai, born in Chiang Mai, went to university in Bangkok and have been associated with the elephant art project since it started. I love elephants and have grown used to seeing them around me since I was a child.

We have always supplied our own special handmade art paper, paints and art materials and have worked directly with the elephant artists in our own unique way to create the very best quality elephant artworks available anywhere in the world. We are not re-sellers of other people's work and furthermore paintings produced by TEAG are different from other elephant artworks that are produced elsewhere.

We are able to manage the entire process from paint colour mixing, to the type of paper used, the choice of artist and supervision of the painting itself and then finally to the packaging and shipping. That's an awesome depth of involvement and quality control that sets us apart.

The impact we have had in creating awareness around the world has been great. Most of our work is in correspondence with educational institutions, animal conservation specialists and a great many students of all ages, from all over the world. Examples of our genuine art by elephants have appeared in museums and featured in children's educational textbooks in the USA for example, as well as in international in-flight magazines, art magazines, countless web articles, on international television and even in the global launch of a new fragrance by Giorgio Armani.

After ten years of consistency in providing a top quality product and service and in creating awareness of the plight of Thai elephants, TEAG is recognized as an authority on elephant art and conservation. Our website appears at the top of all major search engine rankings. Conservationists, elephant lovers and art lovers all over the world come to us for advice. We are quoted frequently by well known fact finding organisations like hoax-slayer.com.

We want to tell the world about our elephants - the plight of Thai elephants generally and about the remarkable achievements of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in helping so greatly to conserve this wonderful mammal.

Before you go, please take a moment to find out 'What's the Difference TEAG and a Re-seller?', a question that we are asked many times.

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