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Punchithaya’s lecture-demonstration was a unique experience
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Photo: Thulasi Kakkat
dexterous brush Punchithaya at the lecture-demonstration
A maestro always unveils his dexterity. And when it’s an artist, it’s becomes an experience to watch him at work. This was exactly what crossed one’s mind while watching Punchithaya paint his famous landscapes, while on a short visit to the city recently.
The lecture-demonstration conducted by this senior artist at the Nanappa Art Gallery, Orthic Creative Centre, was a definitive class in painting. He breathed life into his hallmark landscape paintings using brushes, sponge and knife. A small crowd of attentive audience watched him perform without batting an eyelid. A master in water colour, Punchithaya chose to use acrylic in his attempt to tame nature and its varied moods.
Right through the lec-dem the artist stressed on the dimensional values of landscape painting and also touched on various facets of portrait painting. The artist who belongs to the impressionist school said that that he was obsessed with nature. He added that it was mostly children who were attracted to nature and its pristine beauty.
On the technical aspects of portrait painting, Punchithaya said it required loads of patience and only those blessed with this virtue could aspire to become good portrait painters.
Talking in heavily accented Malayalam peppered with humour, Punchithaya completed his two hour session with a portrait of artist V. Kaladharan, his long-time friend.
Water colours, his forte
P. S. Sankaranarayan Punchithaya, better known as Punchithaya, was born in 1942 to a family of poets and artists. He had his formal education in art at Mysore and Mumbai and is the founder of Rural Art Gallery at Kanchan Ganga Kala Gram in the border district of Kasaragod.
Winner of several awards, Punchithaya has participated in numerous national and state level exhibitions and workshops among which a one-man state wide tour from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram titled ‘Water Colour Expedition’ in 1984 gets pride of place. A master in water color landscape paintings Punchithaya’s works have found their way to collections both in India and abroad
SUNIL NALIYATH
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