- Art, craft and jewellery exhibition attracts art lovers from across the federal capital
The fine miniature paintings by Komal Shahid Khan, skilfully crafted ceramics by Shahid Waheed and artistic jewellery by Jamila Shahid at Nomad Art Gallery Monday attracted the art lovers of the capital.
Komal, who graduated in miniature painting from the Rawalpindi campus of National College of Arts, while commenting about her current exhibition, said, “My work reflects my realization of the insufficiency or complete absence of peoples’ unified resistance against exploitation and manipulation, continually propagating lack of self-consciousness. Art, in itself, is a process of creation, and for me, it is like a journey that sets off the moment my `qalam’ lands on the ‘wasli’. It is a journey with no bounds; a journey so self-explanatory.”
“My series of paintings titled ‘Life Riddle’, revolves around true-life puppeteers in a world of puppet shows, setting up a powerful society, we call home,” she explained.
The artist further said that her paintings express the aura, or the energy that is within and around her, and which constitutes her strength and hope. “In a similar way, I want all to feel the power and energy that ‘we’ women, possess,” she added.
The other artist of the art show, Jamila Shahid, said, “Earth; my inspiration, makes me absorb the warmth and hues, reflected in my clay jewellery. The milieu of Thar Desert and folk traditions is expressed and redefined through my art which pushes the vision and the material, beyond limits,” she expressed.
Whereas, for the award-winning ceramist Shahid Waheed, life, events and images observed on a day-to-day basis are the sources of his inspiration. “My work expresses simplicity, style and aesthetics in life force, which has evolved from a combination of old civilization, heritage and abstraction in its various forms,” the ceramist explained.