Ashok Chatting with Friends (#1)
2016
Oil on Canvas
30" x 24"
Ashok's Painting and Bio from 2016:
Ashok Shrestha, lives in Kathmandu, Nepal and suffers from NF. When he was born, he did not have the facial tumor in the capacity as it appears today. It first appeared as a very small and negligible lesion, similar to a mole or skin tag at the corner side of his right eye. Later when he was one year old, his late father took him to have surgery at the Shanta Bhawan Mission Hospital in Nepal under the supervision of a visiting doctor from the UK. The second major surgery was undertaken at the Bir Hospital in Nepal when he was 12 years old.
Ashok has completed his Master in Commerce in Accountancy and has been working in the computer industry for many years. The tumor, however, has been increasing in size and turned into a huge problem which has landed him in this present situation. Ashok has no work or job anymore because of his face and has been harassed by people. Now, Ashok has the enormous problem of being totally bankrupt.
Since then he has been faced with physical problem of his facial tumor as well which has made eating and conversation problematic along with his economic condition Because it is so difficult to receive adequate care in Nepal, it is Ashok's goal to raise the funds necessary to permanently relocate to the United States, become a US citizen, and seek the surgical expertise of the highly skilled Dr. McKay McKinnon at St. Joseph's Hospital in Chicago, IL.
This painting was used to help raise the $55,000 needed for the first surgery on a GoFundMe page.
Ashok Shrestha, lives in Kathmandu, Nepal and suffers from NF. When he was born, he did not have the facial tumor in the capacity as it appears today. It first appeared as a very small and negligible lesion, similar to a mole or skin tag at the corner side of his right eye. Later when he was one year old, his late father took him to have surgery at the Shanta Bhawan Mission Hospital in Nepal under the supervision of a visiting doctor from the UK. The second major surgery was undertaken at the Bir Hospital in Nepal when he was 12 years old.
Ashok has completed his Master in Commerce in Accountancy and has been working in the computer industry for many years. The tumor, however, has been increasing in size and turned into a huge problem which has landed him in this present situation. Ashok has no work or job anymore because of his face and has been harassed by people. Now, Ashok has the enormous problem of being totally bankrupt.
Since then he has been faced with physical problem of his facial tumor as well which has made eating and conversation problematic along with his economic condition Because it is so difficult to receive adequate care in Nepal, it is Ashok's goal to raise the funds necessary to permanently relocate to the United States, become a US citizen, and seek the surgical expertise of the highly skilled Dr. McKay McKinnon at St. Joseph's Hospital in Chicago, IL.
This painting was used to help raise the $55,000 needed for the first surgery on a GoFundMe page.