painting

Historians say the colonial administrators put down any rebellions and often burnt Naga villages to subdue them, in the process erasing much of their important cultural markers such as paintings, engravings and artefacts.

The painting, begun in 1503, is everything it’s cracked up to be.

Items include his glasses, the piano he practised on, a painting of the star by royal portrait artist Richard Stone, annotated joke books and piles of sketch ideas.

Finally, Ai-Da chose three of the paintings to combine into the final portrait.

He and his wife often get the task of "painting fences or anything that needs painting".