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Nature brings alive art

Three Karnataka artists create a colourful splash.

B. S. Desai.

It is a group show of three artists from the boondocks of Karnataka and it spells different with a D. Now showing at the State Gallery of Art, Anand Bekwad, B. S. Desai and Jayant B. Hubli have got a strange synergy going.

NATURE ART A painting on display.

As you soak in the first impressions, what captures the imagination is the simplistic but natural wooden hued artwork. Don't call them paintings.

"I have put together these wood shavings where one texture has to lead onto the other. They have to blend, match and should not look artificial," says Jayant, a trained commercial artist who has put 10 pieces on display.

Jayant B.

The wood shavings take on the form of a reclining lady, a Ganesha, woman drying clothes while cradling a baby, a lone sparrow on a tree stump, and myriad other forms that one cannot imagine be done with stuff we usually set fire to. Anand Bekwad's work is more in tune with today's world. Using watercolours and acrylics on huge canvases, Anand brings alive a violent cataclysmic world that can be seen in either the tumult or devastation wrought by tsunami or it can be seen in a shattered glass pane.

Anand Bekwa.

Desai revels in a world of colour, form and a play on imagination with his ever-changing forms. Using acrylics and the brightest of colours, Desai lets the viewer see what he wants to see.

SERISH NANISETTI

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