KOCHI: be it instinctive or contemplative, a painting leaves in the canvas all ideas the artist has tried to traverse. Like every other art form, painting too is an artist’s creative attempt to bring to life the reflections of mind. ‘Chingam 2011’ the painting exhibition going on at Nanappa Art Gallery is dedicated to the memory of acclaimed lyricist Dr S P Ramesh.As K P Soman, one of participating artists, puts it, “paintings are spontaneous.” Soman who was the visiting faculty at M S University, Baroda says, “I did whatever came to my mind while painting. I did the series when I was in Baroda. Domestic animals like goats, buffaloes and cows used to wander around my house. Some used to come inside. That inspired me to do the animal forms.”Soman has done six paintings in water colour. Lucid works in earthy colours are distinctive in style. Images like reincarnation are used and simple objects like street light, balloon, jack fruit are employed as metaphors along with the animal figures.The paintings of K K Rajappan, the retired principal of Raja Ravi Varma painting College, Mavelikara, are frames of his childhood memories. He has done a total of eight paintings in acrylic and mixed media. Basic shades of nature like green and blue recur throughout his works. Mountains, trees, waves, clouds, mist and other natural elements are perennial in his paintings.“The greenery of my village had always allured me. Man attempt to destroy the nature which has always played an indispensable role in his life. So I deliberately try to include lesser human images.”Rajappan’s each painting is an experiment. He had used graphic print and the treatment of each painting varies according to the mood of the painting. Rajappan says that changing seasons are his favourite theme and he had never felt an interest to portray city in his works for city life does not leave any temporary imprints in one’s mind.Lally Roshan, a former student of RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, has exhibited twelve water colour paintings and the basic theme of her paintings is the changes of cityscape, which she has done in a child’s naive perspective. The seamy side of the life is portrayed which includes the pathos of the marginalised.Construction works that progresses in the metros, the lives of the workers, women waiting for water and other familiar images of life are portrayed. Since the paintings are from the viewpoint of a child, gulmohar flowers are present in the paintings with an implication that nature watches over everything.Jayesh Paroli’s works are more realistic. He has done four paintings in acrylic - ‘last flow’, ‘golden fish’, ‘cave view’ and a landscape. Mountain cliffs and the tinges of light beams falling on the earth are seen throughout the paintings. Orthic paintings of T Kaladharan, who organised the exhibition, are also there. Kaladharan who has developed a distinctive glass painting style called orthic painting does his works in a reverse mode. Red and black images that symbolise spring and birds seem to say more than one tale. Kaladharan says since the viewer watches his image also in the canvas, he is also a part of the work of art. The exhibition will conclude on September 5.
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