Hyderabad-based artist Aasha Radhika pays a heartfelt tribute to her late mom — who handed away lately— in her twenty fifth solo present Svan: Mystical Wings & Everlasting Tinkles on the State Artwork Gallery. The exhibition options round 70 acrylic and egg tempera work sized 1 foot and three/4 ft measurement that seize her recollections and delightful encounters with Nature.
The artist brings her interior self onto canvas to inform tales and depict younger women and girls from her life. Her artworks are deeply private and spiritually impressed, in tribute to her dad and mom and gurus. As she processes her ideas and concepts, she faucets into an harmless house inside herself to color recollections and pure environment, discovering pleasure in easy issues. She makes use of her mom’s embroidery and favorite colors, recollects her grandmother’s love and nurturing qualities in the direction of animals, and displays on her personal journey along with her daughter.
Myriad meanings
‘Svan’, a chook created by Asha, is a big ingredient and recurring motif on her canvas. Named after her father SV Anjaneyulu, mom Satyavani and 16-year-old daughter Shivani, ‘Svan’ takes on myriad types as a peachick, palapitta (The Indian Blue Jay) or a swan. relying on the idea she desires to convey and to lend symmetry to her work. Aasha, who works as a chief supervisor on the State Financial institution of India, balances her occupation and fervour to reside a purposeful life. “Individuals ask what I do after going residence, and I simply paint. When artwork is an integral a part of life, it’s a non secular connection and doesn’t really feel like all one other exercise.”
Being optimistic, hopeful and reflecting on a bond outline Aasha’s work. She says, “I wish to unfold pleasure by way of my work.”
Svan: Mystical Wings & Everlasting Tinkles is on on the State Artwork Gallery in Kavuri Hills, Hyderabad until August 26 and shall be exhibited on the Jehangir Artwork Gallery in Mumbai from September 16 to 22 .