PAINTINGS
Swapna Malvade
Specializations: Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pencil & Rotring Sketching.
In 1991-92 she was awarded at the Maharashtra Art Exhibition, Akola
e-mail: sapna.malvade@gmail.com
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Artist Note
Man's life has been undergoing a consistent change since ancient times.
His intellect and the unmatched genius has helped him prosper with the
advancement of science. Every individual is different from each other
and so is the variety in life! The varied costumes, tempers, cultures,
life styles and shades of beauty reflect life. Every individual has her
own perspective of looking at life. For me life is, accepting the bad
with the good.
The phenomenal beauty of the living and non-living, expressions of
pleasure and grief, generosity and many more qualities when effectively
depicted through some or the other medium, is called Art!
Creative art is the artist's portrayal of such appealing piece of
imagination which has absorbed the forms of nature, man, animals etc.
Watching such art, we experience a wide range of emotions such as joy,
wonderment, sadness, happiness!
I am one of such artists! With the palette and brush I try to capture
different shapes, shades of light, textures, strokes in a skillful
manner using varied colours so as to see various pictures evolving to
life through them. And when I see people appreciating such works of mine
with a feeling of pleasure and admiration, it gives me immense
happiness and contentment. And this contentment itself is my spiritual
goal!
I hail from a place called 'Ghoti, near Nasik. I have some unforgettable
memories of the time I have spent in 'Ghoti' My father is a cloth
merchant. We own a cloth shop there. My father and brother run this
shop. Amongst our chief customers we have, 'Thakari people, specially
thakari women. These women have a unique costume and a distinctive type
of ornaments. The kind of the blouse (they call it choli) they wear has a
peculiar border with a variety of designs. I don't remember, exactly
since when I did start observing these women with their wonderful
costume and lovely ornaments but one is certain that they have
fascinated me all through! And my fascination of these rustic beauties
sooner found a way of expression through my paintings. I can proudly say
that, with my minute observation of these
'Thakari people, specially women'. I can paint as many varieties of emotions as one can.
'Thakari people' are little dark in colour, for they have to work under
the Sun all the time. So I have selected 'blue' colour to depict their
dark skin. These women tie a piece of cloth round their waist (they call
it 'Phadke'). After shopping, whatever litter they have purchased, they
put in this piece of cloth and wind this cloth around their waist.
Besides this, every 'Thakari' woman wears a big silvery bangle sort of
ornament on their arm called 'Bajubandh' and one big thick silvery payal
called Toda. All these have charmed me a lot. I have been so
passionately fond of them, their costume, that I have already drawn many
pictures covering aforesaid minute details, and still can paint many
more.
All in all, what I feel is observing these 'Thakari people' and trying
to capture them in my painting has influenced me very much. It has
developed an insight in me. For I feel it is always a thrilling
experience to portray them, their emotions. And this experience has
benefited me a lot!
Swapna Malvade
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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