Golden Ganges Canvas Print

India is always changing, yet never changing. This painting was worked from a photo I took on the Ganges River in 1983. If you return to this spot now, you would be hard pressed to find it, and yet everything on the ghats looks the same still. There are still the umbrellas shading the priests from the sun, the bathers cleansing themselves and praying to the river and the cremation and mourning rituals, always changing, never changing. The Ganges is the mother and the goddess.

Sandra R. Hansen travels and paints around the world. During the last few years Sandra has painted numerous landscapes, from the US to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam, and many others. Her specialty has been India where she made numerous trips painting, teaching, and exhibiting her art. This year Sandra started a non profit organization, Artists Cultural Exchange, to help artists from around the world meet each other, paint and exhibit together. Sandra's career has taken many twists and turns before arriving in the world of painting however. Sandra first became a woodworker, building harps at Lyon and Healy in Chicago. After attending Hope College and earning a degree in Women's Studies. For eighteen years she...