Milieu
The circle of Ashot’s friends and colleagues embraces people who share his spirit, creative vision, worldview, and dedication to the purpose of achieving greater Perfection. It is a community constantly growing, and open to all. At the present time, it numbers many thousands of people, all of them working actively for the betterment of humankind.

You will find amongst them many names that you have heard before, belonging to powerful or famous personalities, acclaimed leaders or specialists in one field or another.

Many of them belong to the collectors of his works. Others, to followers of his artistic vision; yet more to ardent fellow participants in a worldwide campaign for social & cultural enlightenment.

This community includes members from all national and ethnic backgrounds; people of all ages, belief systems, and callings; households reflecting all possible life circumstances.

Many of his closest friends and associates are fellow artists, scholars, thinkers.

The names you have encountered on this website, and others of like mind, figure most prominently; others have been added in the years spent in North America. These would by rights include prominent American cultural voices, as well as the politically prominent (Mr. & Mrs. Pete Wilson, Mrs. Reagan, Senator Dianne Feinstein, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown).

Among Ashot’s regular collectors there are many successful businessmen, prominent entrepreneurs, financiers, attorneys, medical doctors, artists of the stage and screen, and other specialised disciplines.

Over the past decades, Ashot’s paintings have been chosen for hundreds of notable private collections. Specialists who have visited his studio have been thrilled by what they have found there. Significantly, a considerable number of professional painters hold Ashot and his paintings in the highest possible regard.