Romio  Shrestha is a master in the artistic traditions of Nepal and Tibet. He directs a school of artist-craftsmen in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal, painting in the Newari style. Shrestha’s work is represented in the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and Tibet House in New York City. His first book of paintings was The Tibetan Art of Healing. He lives in Kathmandu and Ireland with his wife and two children.