Artists explore ‘Mindscapes’ through form and colour

Painters use a wide variety of mediums including gouache, acrylic, ink, watercolour and oil on canvas

LAHORE: Mindscapes, a two-person show by artists Anushka Rustomji and Faraz Aamer Khan, went on display at The Paint Bucket art gallery on Saturday.

Curated by Anum Lasharie, the show displaying 15 art pieces delves into the exploration of form and colour. According to Lasharie, the two artists have attempted to travel into the vast world of abstraction through their art practice.

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“Using a variety of mediums including gouache, acrylic, ink, watercolour and oil on canvas, Aamer and Rustomji venture into notions of emptiness, shared existence and the awareness of a horizon”, she said.

“Building the image layer by layer and watching it take form becomes a medium of self-exploration for these artists”, Lasharie added.

According to Faraz Aamer Khan, his artistic concerns involve reflection and resonance.

“My main body of work is built on a long process of experimentation and research, dabbling in different disciplines mediums and modes of production and expression, that is, from paper to music to canvas and even installations”, he said. According to Aamer, the painted surfaces in his work draw inspiration from the viewed horizon and the sight that is both factual and actual at the same time.

Faraz is a visual artist based in Lahore and graduated from the National College of Arts in 2016 with a BFA in Miniature Painting. Anushka Rustomji’s calls her art work series as Celeste, an Italian word for sky blue and describing divine beings and heavenly settings.



“Through the use of color, I aim to draw references to foreign and desolate landscapes with a subversive quality, which appear suspended between reality and imagination”, Rustomji explained.

“The color blue often acts as a portal in our collective subconscious, to the infinite spaces of the sky and sea, of unreachable horizons and immeasurable depths”, she added.

According to Rustomji, she aims to tread a path between recognisable imagery and gestural abstraction and conscious intention visual choices set against unconscious intuitive expressions.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17^th, 2017.