Artist Aparna Bidasaria's latest work, a travelling exhibition which is inspired by her childhood fascination for banyan trees, is set to arrive in the city later this month.
Set of paintings, titled "Time and Being", will be on display at Jehangir Art Gallery from August 14-20.
Noted artist Brinda Miller will inaugurate it.
Curated by scholar and critic Uma Nair, the seven-day exhibition features a total of 35 paintings, made both in monochromes and colours.
"The magic of the banyan never ceases to amaze me; it is now embedded in my artistic sensibility and craft. I want to tell the world that there is an organic interconnectedness between humans and Nature. When people see my work and stay silent for minutes, I know they are feeling my art," Aparna said in a statement.
The Indore-based painter used clay, charcoal, pastel, ink and acrylic as medium to capture the tree during sunrises and sunsets.
Talking about the artists she looks up to, Aparna said that she is heavily inspired by painters in the West.
"I am inspired by the impressionists and expressionists like Van Gogh, Seurat and Jackson Pollock. Though my language is Indian in thought, the grammar I use is of the West." "Starting the show from Bhopal (Bharat Bhavan) and then to Delhi (Shridharani Art Gallery), the response to my works has been beyond my imagination. The positive energy I have got from artists, critics and people in general has given me immense strength," she added.
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