Perspective: Expressions - paint and bring them to life

Three artists give voice to their expression at Gallery 6 through different art forms.

ISLAMABAD:

Expression comes in all forms as evident from the painting exhibition “Passionate Hues” has brough together three women artists from the capital with distinct subjects. Nargis Khalid focuses on still life, Nusrat Ji on landscapes and Shaheen Shahzada has focused on figurative expressions. The exhibition will open at Gallery 6 on Saturday, said a press release by the curator here on Friday.

Nusrat’s work includes paintings in oil, acrylic, water colour, pencil, charcoal, wax and mixed media. In this exhibition, she has focussed on landscapes with some brush and palette knife strokes clearly defining the object with others in the background.

This creates imagery with three dimensional affects with an element of surrealism. “Over the years, my paintings have had multi discipline concepts, which are wrapped up in strong cultural ethos and mingled up with human emotions and activities,” she said. She has 28 group shows and 18 solo exhibitions, held nationally and internationally to her credit.

Shahzada says her inspiration comes from her mother Laila Shehzada. Her medium is acrylics on canvas, while she makes human moods her subject interpreting them with minimal lines and bold flat colours.

Her work depicts how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn.

About her work, Shaheen said, “None of us feel the same way while experiencing the same time moment or event- someone may feel elated or while other may feel upside down, two individuals will react differently at a given moment in time to the same event.”

Khalid had the opportunity to learn from legendary teachers like Ali Imam and Rashid Ahmed Arshed. Describing her love for painting, Nargis Khalid said “My last brush stroke will cease with my last breath”.

The exhibition will continue till December 9, daily from 11 am to 7 pm, including Sundays at House 624, Street 44, G-9/1.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 26^th, 2011.