Cityscape

I am from rural area of India. I like village life very much. I am working as painter from past ten years. Being a painter is very important for me because i want expresses myself through this medium.

My work is a way of expressing myself to the world. I have a sense of belongingness to the rustic and pastoral Indian lands. Furthermore, I reckon that the woman is the most magnificent creation of god. I draw women in extremely simplistic ways, which is in fact contradictory to their power and potential. In my perspective, there can be nothing remotely enthralling as that of a village woman. Through my paintings, I seek to bring out their inner beauty and charm. Drawing women and the rural Indian lands serve me with immense pleasure and joy.

Sachin was born in Pandharpur but now resides in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He received a diploma in drawing and painting from Dalvis Art Institute, Kolhapur and subsequently, another diploma in Applied Arts from Abhinaw Kala Mahavidyalay, Pune. Sagare has developed his own unique style of charcoal painting. Apart from charcoal, he also works in oils, watercolors and acrylics among many more mediums and techniques. Majorly, he displays his mesmerizing works at solo shows organized by him at art galleries such as Artquest Art Gallery, Sahil Art Gallery and Jahengir Art Gallery to name a few.

The artmaking process often takes the maker into a journey within. The artist creates a

layered, heavily textured work here, representing a passionate moment of intense emotion - so intense that it is able to permanently charr, to consume and to forever leave an

impression. It is quiet heat- the one that is experieced in the aftermath of a raging fire. This work is part of the series - “If Walls Could Speak”.

Sohan Jakhar My recent works addresses my relationship with the cities as well as my ancestry. The current body of work examines the visual dynamics of the roadside bazaar. Our street Bazaar is surrounded by visual stimulation, noisy visual chaos of vendors, hawkers. These vendors, hawkers dominate busiest urban landscapes. Here, a whole new world of images, sounds and gestures is evolving and gaining ground. Visuals of roadside stalls anticipate and announce the cultural and technological shifts.

Praveen Kumar is a Mangalorean armed with a BFA (Painting) at DMS, Mysore and an MVA (Painting) from Jain University, Bangalore. He has been recognized for his abstract work with awards such as the Leela Puraskar Indore (2014), the Sa-Mudra-Nirman-Puraskar (2012) and the Lalit Kala Akademi, and Karnataka State Award (2008). He loves to paint cityscapes, and Praveen’s work is a colorful representation of the grey we see around us. Praveen has been able to translate the pace of a city to the way he sees them. His 2D images, compel the viewer’s eyes to roam the outlines, explore the colors within, and breathe in the mixed hues around vertical and geometrical lines he has sketched. Praveen uses various mediums to express himself on the canvas. He has been known to use acrylic, charcoal, pen, and ink. He has also been a part of numerous art shows. Currently, he works out of Bengaluru as an Art Director for ‘Mesmerizers’ and takes up architectural design freelance work in his spare time.