Wat Ban Koh - Wang Nua Attractions.
Fossicking around the North looking for hidden and new (for me) attractions. Wat Ban Koh came up.
Built in 1932, the temple's first abbot, Luang Pu Kham Por, was a bit of an artist and drew many nice murals on the viharn walls.
With natural materials sourced locally, the abbot used paint in powder form for painting his murals.
The abbot passed on; the murals remained and eventually needed some TLC.
In 2001, 2 million baht was donated by the US Embassy under the US Ambassadors' Fund for Cultural Preservation, to help restore the temple.
The actual renovation started in 2005 and was completed in 2007.
Whilst the murals are not fine art, they have been recognised as a treasure trove of invaluable mural paintings in the Lanna tradition, capturing the essence of daily life in the community around the temple decades ago.
Withi Panichphan, a fine arts lecturer of Chiang Mai University who was in charge of the temple conservation team, said although the paintings in the temple do not look grand and sumptuous by the standards of royal arts, they have touches of genius and represent the originality of Lanna paintings that are rarely found anywhere else.
Location 12 kms south of Wang Nua.
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Fossicking around the North looking for hidden and new (for me) attractions. Wat Ban Koh came up.
Built in 1932, the temple's first abbot, Luang Pu Kham Por, was a bit of an artist and drew many nice murals on the viharn walls.
With natural materials sourced locally, the abbot used paint in powder form for painting his murals.
The abbot passed on; the murals remained and eventually needed some TLC.
In 2001, 2 million baht was donated by the US Embassy under the US Ambassadors' Fund for Cultural Preservation, to help restore the temple.
The actual renovation started in 2005 and was completed in 2007.
Whilst the murals are not fine art, they have been recognised as a treasure trove of invaluable mural paintings in the Lanna tradition, capturing the essence of daily life in the community around the temple decades ago.
Withi Panichphan, a fine arts lecturer of Chiang Mai University who was in charge of the temple conservation team, said although the paintings in the temple do not look grand and sumptuous by the standards of royal arts, they have touches of genius and represent the originality of Lanna paintings that are rarely found anywhere else.
Location 12 kms south of Wang Nua.
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