Umi Bedi’s paintings were on display at Time and Space. A self-taught artist, Umi says she always enjoyed painting and sharing it with others.
It was at her participation at a group show at Mahua last year that Umi discovered that people actually like and appreciated her work. That was when she decided she would plunge into painting full time. “I want to project the relationships we share with nature and be aware of everything that is interconnected. One sees so much pain and sorrow in equal proportions with joy. It is only when one looks beyond the physical being, you find that the body is only a fragment of nature and one needs to go beyond that. I let my emotions take control of myself and painted what my inner self felt.”
Umi loves to work at her pace and experiments a great deal with colours. The human figures fascinates and spurs her imagination to creativity. She began working with oil and found it a convenient medium. She later switched to water colours which was not only a new medium but a tough one.
Umi is inspired by the works of Dali and the impressionist painters, in the series “Boundless Spirit,’ where to her the strokes mean freedom and a sense of space. The works in pastels, acrylic, and water colour depicts Kali and the crucifixion of Christ.  The who’s who of the City were there at  Umi’s show — Urmila Devi, Ann Warrior, Reva and Sudarshan, Kiran and John Shaw, Vani Ganapathy, Jija and Subhir Harishingh, Ritu Malaya, Reet, Berna, the Bhandari sisters, Sheetal Sharma, artists Sultana Hassan,  Suresh Jayaram, Milind Nayak, Chippie and his sister Rehana — they all shared their ideas and thoughts about the work of art on display.
That a lot of people appreciated her work, says Umi gave her the impetus to create something new and explore newer areas in art. The exhibition is on till August 21.