RainTree Media, previewed an art show by three artists, and launched a music album, at The Park on Sunday.
According to Sandhya Mendonca, Managing Director of RainTree Media they have done music launches before but  this was the first time that they have combined it with an art show.
Album launched
Rohini Hatkiri, launched the album of songs by Ram Nagaraj, commending his talent. Ram said this album was inspired by his children who are his greatest critics. 
“Ishq ki Lehere, is dedicated to his late father, M R Nagaraj, from who he imbibed his love of music.
Influenced by the music of the 1960s to 1980s, he says, he sang ghazals, and felt he was not getting his dues as the music scenario changed and had to move from ghazals to pop culture.
“I  approach my music without the cliched stuff, it’s a lot of techno music. I believe my music has elements of the old and new, and I don’t have to make it big. I want people to appreciate my melodies”, he adds. Training with Ustad Aslam Khan, influenced by Chic Correa, Herbie Hancock, The Beatles, K L Saigal, Kishore Kumar and Jagjit Singh, among other musicians of that genre, his oeuvre evokes effortless passion to the listeners.
Talking about the artists, Sandhya says, not all new artists are young. They have been on the art scene, maintaining a low profile and this show enables art lovers to view different styles.
Kalyan Rathore, has a series of bulls in cubistic forms. “My passion for bulls is derived from these animals who are used a beast of burden, and slaughtered, but they also figure in mythology and are worshiped”, he says. Among the bulls, were semi abstract landscapes, which he terms as the “Glad” series.
Of artists
For Soumya, it’s the square that inspires her. “The square is a boundary we make around ourselves. But in its  form, I see colours spring out, and my ‘inscapes’ as I call them, are what I see within the square.”
“The combination of splashes of red, green, in the squares depict the earth and fauna I’ve added Indian symbols to the squares, as my aim is to enable the viewer to see colour in dark spaces”, she says.
The semi abstract portraiture by Dr Norman Guido, a plastic surgeon, had mixed reactions from the guests.
Mohan Kumar, general manager, Taj Group opined, “Art by definition should be original creativity. In the proliferating art scenario, people should know the boundaries of professionalism.”
Art lovers all
This self-taught artist, says “ with knowledge of human forms, constantly treating women with burns I portray through my canvas the inner strength, beauty and exudation of life.”
Art historian Veena Shekar has termed his work as powerful and passionate.
Norman had his first group show at the Jehangir Art Gallery, in Mumbai in 1978. With solo and group shows at CKP, Alliance Francaise, in 2006, honoured by the Karnataka Goan Association this January,  has his private gallery.
Among the guests, Ritu Mallya, Shaheen and Jimmy, Suman and Milind, Anita  and Gurudas and Sanchita Anjampur.
The paintings are on view at 100 Feet restaurant, 100 feet Road, Indiranagar  - till the end of the month.