Invitation to my solo Painting exhibition

I, Nidhi Tripathy, invites your cordial presence at my solo painting exhibition...

Random Thoughts

at

Chemould Art gallery

Queen's Mansion,12F Park Street

Kolkata-700016

Exhibit runs: 9 April 2011 to 13 April 2011

Art gallery hours:2pm to 7pm

My early canvases were my classwork and homework notebooks,exhibition hall: principals office.The elaborate work in primary classes (with the patience and perseverance of my teachers) shrunk to the last pages scribbles and margin decorations, but it compelled my teachers to allow me to bunk boring classes and go on excursions called inter school competition.One prize which I still remember is the Nehru Bal Samiti, which perhaps is lying around somewhere but the fate of most others,have been similar to a lost file, under any sarkari babu's desk. But one thing which the babu couldn't sit on, was the passion to paint.Neither the formal economics nor legal education could decay the fascination with colours.The civil services exam (UPSC) did manage to keep my brushes away from my reach for couple of years, but the job fueled the craving and the etch in the fingers.Most of my works are spontaneous,without any rough sketches or planning.I pick up my palate only when words fail me.I try to translate the thoughts of the subconscious on the canvas and ease my pain of being gagged but it would be the first time that I will know, if they communicate to others.Most of the time I found myself picking up oil paints,perhaps because the oil paints need no medium.It can be independently used on the canvas,direct from the tube, the feeling of freedom and independence is intoxicating.The feel of the paint on the canvas is so smooth and engulfing that the canvas losses it's identity under the opaque coverage,a very comfortable vent for my otherwise gagged expressions.