Welcome to the Karuna Village Blog

Hello everyone! My name is Jasper and this is the first of a regular blog on the trials and triumphs of my new Fair Trade Fine Art site www.karunavillage.com Karuna Village is a nonprofit agency.

I am British and have lived in USA for just over two years - just in case American readers find some of the spelling slightly different! 

The eventual aim is to bring you the stories of the people behind the art that is on offer on the Karuna Village site. It is still very early days for the site but, eventually, my wife (Naomi) and I plan to travel to the individual countries to develop relations with artists personally and, of couse establish relations with new artists. Both Naomi and I are keen travelers and travelling was very much part of the plan when the idea for selling fair trade fine art came up. Telling the stories of the artists and their culture is a very important part of what we are trying to do at Karuna Village and, where possible, we provide printed information about the art piece and information about the artist, their background and their culture with each piece of art we sell.

At the moment, we are not in a position to travel to each and every country to obtain our art and so are dealing with several intermediary groups and suppliers. However, we only work with groups and suppliers that operate on a fair trade basis, and we only offer you the very best of the art we come across. But, I have to say that there is a lot of very good art out there, and most of it is very affordable. Please feel free to browse the site and I hope you will support our mission to educate the community about fair trade and its benefits to our artists and their communities by buying a piece of art.