Also the founder of Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre, she has received wide acclaim for her outstanding portraiture works. The exhibition was inaugurated by British Ambassador to Nepal Andy Sparkes.

Salter has been painting Nepal and Nepali people for decades now, and is globally recognised for her portrait series Faces of Nepal. The current exhibition features a total of 206 paintings divided into three different themes: Faces of Nepal, All Our Daughters and Drawings from Bhutan.

“I was so impressed and attached with Nepali people and their beautiful faces during my first visit to Nepal in 1968. Since then, I have been portraying those wonderful faces around me in my paintings,” said Salter.

The Faces of Nepal series of paintings comprises of illustrations of Nepali faces belonging to different castes and ethnicities, while All Our Daughters is an emphatic portrayal of girls and women rescued from trafficking, and includes a series of paintings of Nepali girls placed at Maiti Nepal after being rescued. In addition, the Drawings from Bhutan series incorporates striking portraits of the Bhutanese.

Beautiful women in traditional attire feature regularly in her paintings. And even in the ongoing exhibition, one such painting stands out: an image of Kumari Devi, dressed in her regalia, looking graceful and divine.

Many of her paintings are often composed of thick, bold brush strokes layered over each other in both warm and cool hues of oil paint.

The exhibition will continue till October 8. The exhibition will remain closed from October 1-3, during Dashain Festival