Tiffani Hollack Gyatso was born in 1981 and grew up in the countryside of São Paulo, Brazil in a community which her parents built. During her teens she lived in a sailing boat and after all the water, she lived a while with the aboriginals at the Australian desert. In 2000 she made a pilgrimage with her family and two friends from Germany, through Russia untill Mongolia where she saw thangka painting for the first time and decided right there she would learn it. Though before that she went back to Europe where she worked and studied graphik and web deisgn. In 2003 she finally moved to north India, Dharamsala and was accepted as the first foreigner at the Norbulingka Institute founded by H.H. the Dalai Lama and studied thangka painting untill 2006. Then she returned to Brazil together with her tibetan husband, Kelsang and they had their son at the end of the same year.

By September 2007 she was invited to coordinate the wall paintings of the temple Caminho do Meio CEBB in Rio Grande do Sul, south of Brazil a buddhist center guided by the brasilian physics and lama, Lama Padma Samten (www.caminhodomeio.org)

Tiffani's art work is also sold on canvas after making an order.

The artist got her main knowledge in different painting techniques in not a very conventional way. Her teachers were 'free souls' that crossed her path and tought her all what they were.
Besides painting mainly the sacred iconography from Tibet, she paints abstracts figures inspired by people's own inner 'gods and demons'.

"Thangka is a discpline that I need to practice when modern art had taken me too deep. The two oposites of art brings me balance. Thangka is the bread and modern art like water - though only bread makes it too dry and only water does not feed you - I need both. Discpline and freedom."