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Strokes that bring solace
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Painting has a therapeutic effect, says artist V. K. Sathyendran, who held a show at Vinyasa recently
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STYLISED DEPICTIONS Works by V. K. Sathyendran
An alumnus of the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, V. K. Sathyendran worked as artist and visualiser in advertising agencies before he decided to become a full-time artist. Even before completing his degree course, he won a merit scholarship from the Victoria Technical Institute. Painting has been a means of rehabilitation for him to get over a psychological problem.
In his recent exhibition at the Vinyasa Art Gallery, he had displayed different types of paintings. Many of them had the square as the only element of composition. Varying the size of the squares, he placed them to make different arrangements. Some of them painted in different shades of green with an outline in black or white could help in meditation, he said. In some, square pieces of paper, either with print or visuals, were used in place of colour, lending texture.
Fascination for faces
Sathyendran has these days taken to drawing and painting faces, mainly of rural women, in a stylised manner. In some of his works on show, he had drawn the face in three-quarters profile, and filled the two halves in two different colours, such that at times they looked like two different faces — the right half was in profile, while the left half appeared like another face peeping from behind. The area surrounding the face was filled with decorative elements drawn from the folk idiom, such as stylised animal forms, flowers or fish.
Another type of work had a delicate mosaic-like effect. The entire surface of the paper was covered with scribbles — circles and loops. In the middle, he had created beautiful forms of birds such as parrot and rooster, filling the tiny spaces created by the squiggles with multiple colours.
Sathyendran has designed the covers and illustrated many publications of SCARF(I), while an NGO from Holland chose his work for its calendar and a star hotel for its greeting cards.
L.V.
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