Rosha Basnet
Kathmandu, July 29 :
Sixteen-year-old Shusmita Jimee of Nepal, was one of the youngest participants
of the international exhibition of paintings and sculpture concluded at Nepal
Art Council, Kathmandu on Sunday.
Born at Lukla, known as Gateway to
the Mt Everest, and pursuing fine arts as a passion, she had two paintings on
display at the tri-nation exhibition.
While one of her paintings
portrayed magnificent Mt Machhapuchre, other one projected women's
contributions to household affairs.
Altogether 194 paintings sketched
by a total of 59 women artists from Nepal, India and Bangladesh were put up in
display where the exhibition demonstrated women artists from three countries at
their artistic brilliance.
The exhibition was jointly
inaugurated by Bangladeshi Ambassador to Nepal Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury and
former Chancellor of Nepal Academy of Fine Arts Ragini Upadhaya Grela on July
24. Sushma Raj Bhandari and Dr Seema Shah graced the inaugural event as the
special guests.
The paintings and drawings created
by 20 Nepali, 27 Indian and 12 Bangladesh artists in different media such as
acrylic on canvas, charcoal sketch and water colour among others were exhibited
in the five-day event that attracted art lovers of all age group and walks of
life.
A student of architecture Nabina
Thapa came to the event to soak up her eyes in the beauty of paintings sketched
by various women artists. The 22-year-old, standing against a vibrant paintings
of flowers made on water colour, confided anything aesthetics catches her fancy
including a charcoal sketch of a girl with wool in the exhibition.
It was the second tri-nation
painting exhibition for Bangladesh's Lubna Habib. It was, however, her first
exhibition in Nepal. The Bangladeshi artist shared that she made a comeback to
fine arts after a long hiatus and was buoyed to have got a chance to present
her artworks in Nepal despite an extended departure from painting.
Prior to this event, she held a
solo exhibition in her home country and brought 10 selected paintings for this
event, she divulged.
India's Iti Bhattacharya, who
forayed into the world of colours out of sheer passion and without any formal
training and education in this field, expressed her joy for participating in
the tri-nation exhibition.
"Such events provide us a
platform to showcase our work as well as offer good networking opportunity with
fellow artists," the elderly artist gushed.
The elderly artist's artwork themed
'Solitary' painted on acrylic canvas left many visitors in awe as well as in
daze given its unique projection with bull as the theme of the painting and
minimalistic use of colours.
Nepal's Anuradha Thapa travelled
from Biratnagar to showcase her artworks themed Lord Buddha. The 64-year-old, a
graduate of fine arts from India, has been pursuing painting for the past 46
years.
"I wish such events to keep
happening for us to stay motivated and encourage young generation of
artists," she expressed her wish during felicitation of senior artists in
the closing ceremony.
Spread Wings, a network of women
artists in India, Bangladeshi women artists group Ghuddi and Nepal's Lalitya
Kala Jagaran collaborated to organize this event, informed Lalitya Kala
Jagaran's Sushma Shrestha. RSS