Painting the different aspects of life

As the seven colours of the rainbow come together in unison to tell the story of a rainy day, four women artists collaborated to canvas the different aspects of life in their own way. The painting exhibition titled ‘Infinite Rainbows’ held recently at The Art Place, Gurgaon saw the artists conveying such ideas on media such as oil and acrylic, mosaics,glass artifacts.

Artists Kanika Singh, Shanthi Vatsala, Ramniet S Mukherjee and Aparna Anoop brought together the traditional and contemporary mix of paintings offered for homes, hotels, office spaces etc.

Inaugurated by Qazi M Raghib, art critic and director, the show saw the artists sharing a common platform provided by Mums at Work group, a community for women entrepreneurs to enhance their skills and opportunities.

“A rainbow has most vivid spectrum of colours that spreads happiness and vibrancy as it is the magic of nature. Each artist has come together for the show as a rainbow comes together during monsoon,” one of the artists, Shanthi Vatsala tells Metrolife.

Being a home maker for over 20 years, she decided to come out of her cocoon to start Tulika vibrations – Art for Spirituality, as a space for her oil and acrylic works. She mentions that her motto is to redefine art as a medium to spread peace and positive vibrations.

While Vatsala’s oil and acrylic posit on positive energy, peace and tranquility to homes and offices, Singh’s mosaics demonstrate vibrancy of mirrors. Whereas, Anoop focuses on tribal art through glass artifacts, and specially-abled Mukherjee brings together heritage art and products owing to her work with rural artisans.

 Vatsala says that human race is caught up in three states – wakening, dreaming and sleeping (jagrut, swapna, susupt), which is a triangle and art is a tool to get out of it and reach ‘bindu’ (central point), which is the stage of ‘turiya’ or pure consciousness state. “While painting I reach the stage of ‘turiya’. I want every person to be in that stage while adoring my paintings because I paint with devotion, passion and with a purpose and a concept,” mentions Vatsala in her web portal. 

The exhibition was followed by a two-day workshop by Singh for hands-on experience of mosaic art. “We were very happy, enlightened by the whole experience. The true delight of artist is when her works touch the hearts of people, and portray the meaning that the artist wants,” says Vatsala on the response to the exhibition.

As the theme pondered on the true meaning of rainbow stemming from the three prime colours unfolding from white, it went further to highlight colours as powerful signifiers in our everyday life. While the paintings highlighted colour blue as indicator of intention or will, denoted by a spiritual center in the head, they mentioned yellow as wisdom. The colour red was portrayed as the one that evokes emotions or depicts feelings.

“When blue is in harmony with yellow and red, there is peace and balance in body and mind. From this trinity of primary colours emanate the secondary colours,” mentions Vatsala.

She adds, “As artists, we tried to bring people closer to divinity through capturing these traits on canvas.”