VOY-AGE: Solo Show of Paintings By Renowned artist Swati Roy
The recent work of a luminary from Govt College of Art and Craft and a renowned contemporary artist, Swati Roy, will be showcased in a solo art exhibition at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai 400 018, from 19th 25th November 2024. It will be open there for free public viewing daily between 11 am to 7 pm. This series made in watercolours on art paper using the Gouche technique will exemplify subtle nuances of her skilful application of apt colours in thoughtful pragmatic thematic perceptions.
Swati Roy had her art education up to a diploma in fine arts followed by a diploma in Indian style drawing and painting from Govt. College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. Then, she displayed her thematic work in solo and group art exhibitions at renowned galleries all over India, such as the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, etc.
The present series, VOY-AGE, highlights subtle nuances of the thematic conceptualizations based on fundamental concepts and their skilful application via apt colour tones to suit thematic peculiarities. Her works have a magical sensibility via the essence of both Indian and Western arts. Perfections in her style command over the medium and techniques adopted and her expertise in presenting non-figurative abstraction compositions are commendable. Her work is in the genre of classic modernism and expressionism, which are bold pictorials of her deepest thoughts. Her thoughts & Inspiration received from nature find a prominent place in her creative endeavours.
Her faith in phenomenal nature as the ultimate source of forms and configuration duly reflects in the creation by a selection of the recollected memories of the observed contents as the configuration of colour masses with shapes defined by contour lines on dimensional pictorial surfaces divided into flat colour areas. These shapes and spaces, being the residues of images of the phenomenal terrains, sky, land, roads, plants, etc, become expressive. The various contour lines with which she encloses the shapely colour masses endow the shapes with a strange kind of organic rhythm, thereby rendering expressionism to work. In a way, her works are at a junction between representationalism, formalism and expressionism. She has adopted suggestive colours and common symbols upheld by plastic rhythm and inventive shapes. The insistent flowing vegetative rhythms of semi-abstract and abstract combinations find a significant place in her creations which are both eloquent and lucid as well as thematically relevant.
VENUE:
Nehru Centre Art Gallery
Dr. Annie Besant Road,
Worli, Mumbai 400 018
Date: 19th to 25th November 2024
Timing: 11 am to 7 pm
Contact: +91 8910812801
