Livia Liverani began to draw as a child under the guidance of her grandmother, also a painter. In 1983 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, but left it for Indonesia where she lived for four years. During this time she travelled extensively in Asia, including Japan, which inspired her textile designs. In 1990 she fell in love with China and decided to study both its language and culture. Livia studied Chinese and Taoist philosophy at ISMEO in Rome, and Sanskrit at the Indian Cultural Centre. This led her to travel to Ladakh in 2005. There she met Lama Yeshe Jamyang, who has been teaching her classic sacred Tibetan art. She has returned to Ladakh each summer since, and has been painting on silk themes similar to Buddhist sacred art. Her work has been displayed in several exhibitions in Spain and Italy, and her first painting on silk is kept at the Lamayuru Monastery, Ladakh. Livia paints primarily on textile, from exquisite silks to vintage fabrics. Set against backgrounds of graceful decorative patterns, her work demonstrates carefully detailed research on powerful yet delicate symbols.

Nyima Dhondup was born in Tibet in 1970. In 1986 he moved to India, where, as a monk, he devoted himself to Buddhist philosophy and religion. He left his monastery and moved to Italy in 1997 and for many years taught Tibetan language at Sapienza University in Rome. Since 2008, he has studied Tibetan painting with Lama Yeshe Jamyang from Nurla, Ladakh. Trained in classical thanka style, Nyima works mainly on silk and utilizes intricate calligraphy and Buddhist imagery  to send his message of love and compassion and to address environmental and social issues.