Solo show receives overwhelming response
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A solo exhibition titled ‘Journey, discovery and fusion’ by Samina Afzal received a great response from the visitors.
Pakistan National Council of the Arts hosted the show on March 17 and will conclude on Sunday (today) at the National Art Gallery.
Inamul Haq Former Foreign Minister and Foreign Secretary and Shahzad Durrani, DG PNCA Ayoub Jamali along with selected guests visited the exhibition.
While completing her Master of Fine Arts during the 1970s from the Punjab University, she remained a student of Anna Molka Ahmed and Zubaida Javaid. Samina uses dry pastels, acrylics and watercolors as preferred media. The vivid expression and the passionate abandon is characteristically nuanced in all her paintings, fusing the artistic mood spread over half a century.
Samina's paintings have been collected by The Punjab Club, the Lahore Gymkhana, as well as by personal collectors. She continued her nostalgic rediscovery that celebrates women as the center-piece and colours of nature as the inspiration. She is well-known for her valuable contribution to promoting appreciation of art.
A large number of people visited the exhibition, including artists, students from Pak-Turk School, and other colleges and universities from Islamabad, VIPs, government officials and the media.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 19th, 2023.