Kinzang Chojay comes from Eastern Bhutan in a family of lay monks. His father is also an accomplished painter who has crafted some finest artistic works that can be seen in Trashigang Dzong (monastic palace-fortress) in Bhutan. When he was sixteen years old, he joined the Institute of Thirteen Arts and Crafts in Bhutan’s capital, Thimphu or six years of study.

He led restoration projects for many precious frescos in ancients temples besides undertaking new painting projects in new monasteries. One of the works was being engaged in the Druk Wangyel Temple project at Dochula, Thimphu, which is dedicated to the Fourth King of Bhutan.

Kinzang Chojay thinks that his artistic talent is pre-destined. “I get so absorbed in the work that sometimes I don’t even notice the passage of time,” Each stroke and each drop of paint is executed with meditative precision, he says. “I am in my own world when I paint, but this is the world I am most happy to be in.”