His journey of art, began while he was travelling in a train, observing rock formations and started sketching them on paper. His subjects of paintings are based on still life, portrait and composition and his style of painting is soft pastel on paper or painting with water colours. Meet artist Rohini Kumar, whose paintings, “Rock Quest” are on display at Beyond Coffee till January 11, 2012. Rohini Kumar started his formal education at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture in Chennai.He says he is very much inspired from his teacher Kondapalli Sheshagiri and eventually chose the path of fine arts. Though he plunged into corporate advertising for a while, his heart always remained rooted to painting.“Rock Quest”, as the title suggest is all about paintings of rocks stacked over one another forming beautiful, yet amazing figurines, that portrays the magic of nature. “As rocks are being destroyed, the government should take preventive measures to save them,” says Kumar. He then adds, “Rocks are our heritage and should be treated with utmost care. They are precious as they cannot be grown like trees”.Rohini believes that, “Art is an ever evolving process which is spreading with horizon to occupy a major part in hearts of the people and there can be no better medium to spread messages.”One of his works, a Lord Ganesha painting earned a great response, when the artist had exhibited it previously in Renaissance Art Gallery, Bengaluru and also at the ICCR Art Gallery, Hyderabad. Rohini Kumar says, he draws ideas from ancients idols and tries to adds a little bit of himself to create his own figures, one of them being the Vemulawada Ram Laxman Seeta idol, in which he composed a monkey in his painting.
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