Srijan Samooh’s maiden painting exhibition opens at Kala Kendra

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Apr 20: Srijan Samooh, the group dedicated to art, held its maiden painting exhibition titled The Beginning’, at the Kala Kendra, here today.
The highlight of the exhibition is that it comprises of works of an apparently disparate group of 10 painters who despite coming from different age groups and backgrounds have one common thread of respective passion for individual artistic expression.
The participating group as such includes art hobbyists like Amardeep, an engineer, Al Nasir, a practicing lawyer, Gopesh a student, Gulshan Sehgal, a retired government servant, Dr Sanjay Sharma, a university professor, Virji Virendra Sumbli, an art college drop out, the trio of Vijay Anand, Amit Anand and Chetna Anand—for whom, being the children of veteran artists Dev Dass, art has been a family vocation while Subhash Langeh, a teacher in KCS, in turn has been a student of Vijay Anand.
The paintings on display due to artists’ unique individual situations of taking to art as a hobby and profession are therefore marked by a variety in terms of subjects, materials and techniques. Mainly figurative the works on show ranging between being realistic to symbolic include landscapes, monuments, characters from life and philosophical renderings of religious characters and concepts. The three-day exhibition, which was inaugurated by Pawan Kotwal, Divisional Commissioner. The show is open between 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., will conclude on 22 April 2012.