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Ode to nature
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Shivani Dugar quit her banking job in Washington to pursue painting
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Brush strokes Shivani believes art is mesmerising
She’s so in love with nature that she took to depicting them on canvas. But it is not the mountains, trees and valleys that you see in her works.
Shivani Dugar depicted nature in an abstract manner. The colours are blended in such a way that it gives you a very misty appearance. “I paint the landscape as I want it to be seen,” says the artist, who has made Washington her home.
“It was there that I did a thesis on trees and forests. I love nature for it is hard to capture it and every one perceives colours and see landscapes differently.”
Brought up in Bangalore, Shivani started painting at the age of five. “I would go to Chitrakala Parishath for painting classes and ever since used all my spare time to paint,” says Shivani, who went abroad to study Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Studies did not take her away from the world of canvas. She continued to paint even after she found herself a banking job in Washington. “I kept on doing various art courses there and also did a micro in fine arts, which was a four-year course.”
And one day she decided that it was art where her passion was and started to spend almost all her time painting. Shivani went on to do a masters in arts at Pratt Institute in New York and there has been no looking back ever since. Shivani runs a “textile banner with my husband that takes care of my bread and butter. This profession taught me the art of texture and print-making techniques, some of which I have transferred to my art work,” she says.
Shivani says paintings are not just a piece of art “but something that leaves you mesmerised so much that you want to keep it in your home. It is something that grows on you. It should be something that you would want to keep looking at over and over again,” explains this artist, who has had many solo shows at the RL Fine Arts, New York, Peter Louis Arts, New York and Stueben West Gallery, Brooklyn to name a few.
“The reviews and the encouragement have been good. That is when I decided that I had to establish myself in my home town too,” says Shivani who will have an exhibition of her works in Bangalore at Ista from January 9 to 11 and the same will continue at Mahua from January 11 for two weeks. Her works, titled “Sacred Spaces” are all landscapes and Shivani can be contacted on shivanidugar@
hotmail.com.
This column features those who choose to veer off the beaten track.
SHILPA SEBASTIAN R.
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