About The Gallery

My name is Issaraporn Kaew-ee and I am the owner and managing director of The Elephant Art Gallery. I am responsible for all aspects of running the business today, including working directly with the elephants to make the paintings and corresponding with TEAG customers and donors who use us as a conduit for sending money to help the elephants at the elephant hospital.

I am Thai, born in Chiang Mai and have been associated with the elephant art project from the beginning. I love elephants and have grown used to seeing them around me since I was a child and when this opportunity presented itself I jumped at the chance.

The elephant art project today known as TEAG was initiated by Henry Quick, a British citizen, in the year 2000 and he set up the original elephant art gallery website in 2002.  Henry was the managing director of HQ Group Co.,Ltd, a company established in Chiang Mai in 1994 that manufactures paper and runs an art gallery. As Henry is very concerned about elephant conservation and is also an artist and art lover, the creation of an elephant art website that promoted the cause of elephant conservation was a natural extension of his interests.

In January 2006 The Elephant Art Gallery was made into a separate business, independent from HQ Group and we revised and relaunched this website under the original direction of Aum-Mon Weesatchanam, whose quotations appear in many place in this site.

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