SECOND LIFE
Art as catharsis
RANA SIDDIQUI
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She loves to dabble with colours but hasn’t yet thought of exhibiting her works. Meet Dimple Kapadia, the artist.
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“Her images are semi-abstract. They are almost dream-like, have beautiful, expressive eyes and the peace of freedom plays wide on their hazy faces.” This is what Sidharth, a well-known Delhi-based painter, has to say about his disciple Bollywood actor Dimple Kapadia. Painting is Dimple’s passion and easily a lesser known facet of her life.
She turned 51 this June and has three films on hand, including one with Rishi Kapoor opposite whom she started her career more than 30 years ago. But it is about paintings that she wants to talk. She readily admits to her interest in painting but adds that she has a long way to go.
Complete devotion
“I don’t paint to sell. I paint because I enjoy it and am able to lose myself completely in it. I don’t consider myself a painter. Just say that I love to dabble with colours. I have been doing it for several years,” she says. Dimple prefers oil and natural pigments on canvas. “I think I am still quite immature. I haven’t grown to a drawing room painter as yet,” she adds.
Sidharth says she has also learnt vegetable and minerals dyes but is not using it, as it needs a professional set-up that she doesn’t have at the moment. He also praises her complete devotion as a disciple: “Despite being a celebrity, she wears no arrogance. She has no ego. She even cleans the tables and the brushes.”
Warm colours
Dimple, he adds, is very homely and extremely caring for her family members, and that shows on her canvas. “She is usually surrounded by children at home. She cooks and cleans her home like anybody else. And that’s why, there is warmth in her choice of colours — bright and yet serene.” Though Dimple paints regularly at home, she is not planning any exhibition as yet.
“I have never thought of mounting an exhibition of my works for I have never planned to take painting professionally. Art for me is more of a catharsis. Moreover, I think I am still quite immature to exhibit,” is her reason.
But she hit the public eye with another venture earlier: candle-making. She exports decorative candles to different countries. “I do the designing but my daughter Twinkle takes care of the most part of the business,” she concludes.
This column looks at little known aspects of well known personalities.
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