What is Elephant Art?

Hard to Hold Elephant Japatee Back

There are several different elephant camps in Thailand that have followed the lead shown by the Thai Elephant Conservation Center and these other camps now produce some elephant paintings. These are supplied to several local and international websites. While I am very happy to see new endeavours emerge to help Thailand’s elephants in this way, I would not be comfortable to support sources of elephant art that produce paintings that are manipulated by humans. We are intent on providing genuine elephant art of the highest quality. As such we guarantee that every painting we sell is a genuine original that has been painted directly onto the paper by an elephant that has not been aided by a human during the creative process. As explained above, I am involved personally in the creation of every single painting and my role is only to load the paint brushes, not in any way to prompt, direct or otherwise manipulate the painting process itself. This is something very important to me in retaining the full integrity of the finished artwork.

These are the reasons why we do not sell anything other than genuine abstract creations that are painted by the artists using their own volition. We will not sell art that looks like self-portraits, or vases of flowers, or any other ‘novelty’ paintings that are currently in vogue that the elephants have obviously been trained and prompted to paint. At The Elephant Art Gallery we regard these items as being highly manipulated and very far removed from genuine art.

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