DIWALI 2014

Arts ForIndia

Arts ForIndia

DIWALI 2014Arts for India is delighted to present the Diwali 2014 collection. Here we are presenting a range of artists from India as well as Indian artists or artists inspired by India. Arts for India is a UK-registered charity (charity number 1137824) which supports the development of the Delhi-based International Institute of Fine Arts (IIFA). IIFA stands out in India as one of the few private sector providers of art education in a country where public investment is very poor. IIFA provides a quality education to BA and Diploma level in Fine Art, Applied Art, Fashion, Textiles and Apparel Design and the KLNYLLZ�HYL�HѝSPH[LK�[V�*O��*OHYHU�:PUNO�<UP]LYZP[ �̀�4LLY\[�MVY�HJJYLKP[H[PVU���;OL�PUZ[P[\[L�PZ�HSZV�WHY[ULYLK�^P[O�[OL�7YPUJL»Z�+YH^PUN�:JOVVS�HUK� [OL�<UP]LYZP[`�VM� [OL�(Y[Z�3VUKVU�HUK�IV[O�<2�IHZLK�LZ[HISPZOTLU[Z�ZLUK� [OLPY� [LHJOLYZ�HUK�HS\TUP�Z[\KLU[Z�[V�00-(�[V�OLSW�YHPZL�LK\JH[PVUHS�Z[HUKHYKZ�^OPSZ[�ILULÄ[PUN�MYVT�[OL�[PTL�PU�0UKPH�[V�^VYR�VU�[OLPY�V^U�WYHJ[PJL� Over 375 students receive an education at IIFA, many of them having their fees and boarding covered via the Four Year :JOVSHYZOPW�7YVNYHTTL�^OPJO�ZLLZ�M\[\YL�Z[\KLU[Z�ZWVUZVYLK�[OYV\NO�[OLPY�Z[\KPLZ�I`�WH[YVUZ�MYVT�HJYVZZ�[OL�^VYSK� 50% of proceeds from Paresh Maity and Jayasri Burman will be donated to Arts for India. 65% of proceeds from Indian sourced artists will be donated to Arts for India. 70% of proceeds from UK sourced artists will be donated to Arts for India.

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Kalpana Shah Born in Mumbai and a graduate of Business management; Kalpana is a self-taught artist, a collector and gallerist. She has curated several prestigious Art shows in India as well as internationally in New York, London, Tokyo and Singapore. Kalpana has had solo shows in Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad and has been actively participating in group shows. Recently she has also been involved in participating in charitable projects like ‘Jungle City – Edinburgh and Charity Art Auction by Nanhi Chhaan Foundation. The series of paintings by Kalpana Shah present a magical play of vivid pigments knife-bladed onto canvas.

Energy acrylic on canvas 91 x 122 cm (36 x 48 in) £ 3,750

Balance acrylic on canvas 91 x 122 cm (36 x 48 in) £ 3,750

Sun acrylic on canvas 152 x 91 cm (60 x 36 in) £ 4,500

Cityscape acrylic on canvas 122 x 122 cm (48 x 48 in) £ 5,000

Ravi Mandlik Ravi Mandlik was born in 1960 at Achalpur, Maharashtra. He completed his G.D. Art in painting with first class first from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. He was a member of teaching faculty of L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai and Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai for a considerable period of time. He has had several prominent solo exhibitions all over the country. Internationally, he has been a part of several eminent art shows like ‘Imprints’, The Ueno Royal Museum Tokyo, 2007; & ‘Power of Peace’, Bali, 2007, organized by Tao art gallery; International show organized by Articulate, New York, 2007; ‘The Indiart Show 2006’; The Chapel Gallery, Singapore; ‘Maratha Kaleidoscope’ Al Diyafa Center, Satwa, Dubai, 2002; W/N Millennium Show at London, Brussels, Stockholm, and New York, 1999; International Art Exhibition, Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Japan, 1995. He has won several awards for his outstanding works. He is one of the five winning artist from India for the Winsor & Newton worldwide millennium painting competition held in 1999. He was awarded the Bendre-Hussain Scholarship from BAS Mumbai in 1995-96. In 1992, he won the International awarded of Seychelles Visual Art Biennale from the Seychelles Govt. Others include award from the Art Society of India (1985), Usha Deshmukh Gold-Medal from Sir J.J. School of Art (1985) and Fellowship from Sir J. J. School of Art (1984). He was invited to visit and represent India in an International Art Exhibition organized by Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Japan. His paintings are a part of the collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Delhi; Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi; Maharashtra State Government and many private collections in India and abroad.

Untitled III acrylic on canvas 122 x 183 cm (48 x 72 in) £ 12,500

Untitled IV acrylic on canvas 122 x 183 cm (48 x 72 in) £ 12,500

Untitled XXV acrylic on canvas 102 x 76 cm (40 x 30 in) £ 4,750

Untitled XXIV acrylic on canvas 102 x 76 cm (40 x 30 in) £ 4,750

Anwar Anwar studied fine art at National Diploma Gwalior in 1985. He has had both solo as well as group exhibitions in various cities across India since 1986. At the same time he has been the recipient of many awards including ‘All India Kalidas’ exhibition,1985, Madhya Pradesh State exhibition, Bhopal, 1986, Bharat Bhavan scholarship, Bhopal, South central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur 1988, Mahakoshal Kala Parishad, Raipur 1989, All India Arts & Crafts Society New Delhi 1989, II Bharat Bhavan Biennial, Bhopal,1990 Govt. of India Fellowship, New Delhi (1993-94), National Award by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (1995), Govt. of India Senior Fellowship, New Delhi (1996-97). Anwar lives and works in Delhi.

Untitled I oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 in) £ 2,000

Untitled II oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 in) £ 2,000

Untitled III oil on canvas 91 x 91 cm (36 x 36 in) £ 4,000

Untitled IV oil on canvas 91 x 91 cm (36 x 36 in) £ 4,000

Brinda Miller Chudasama Brinda studied at Parsons School of Design, New York and did her Diploma in Textile Design from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1979. She started her career designing patterns for textile mills. In fact, her work can now be called a combination of realism and abstraction. Brinda has experimented with various mediums like acrylic, corrugated cardboard, cloth and metallic paper and excels in mixed media – oils, acrylics and collages. She is known to use material in a collage to create three-dimensional effects. Brinda has held many solo exhibitions in Mumbai and been a part of many significant National and International group shows including Reflections Art Gallery, Hong Kong, Colors of India, Dubai etc. She has been actively organizing several art events such as the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2007 and 2008 and has also been Executive Committee Member, Kala Ghoda Association since 2000. Brinda is instrumental in the beautification of the Kala Ghoda Art District and has not only created murals for the art district of Mumbai, but has also been responsible in bringing public art to the city, e.g. The Khyber Art Wall Mural; The Maritime Heritage Mural; Naval Dockyard, Mumbai; and the restoration and beautification of 5 Traffic Police Chowkies. Brinda lives and works in Mumbai.

Moonstruck mixed media on canvas 91 x 122 cm (36 x 48 in) £ 5,000

Speed of Light II mixed media on canvas 62 x 62 cm (24.5 x 24.5 in) £ 2,000

Speed of Light III mixed media on canvas 62 x 62 cm (24.5 x 24.5 in) £ 2,000

Speed of Light IV mixed media on canvas 62 x 62 cm (24.5 x 24.5 in) £ 2,000

Speed of Light VII mixed media on canvas 62 x 62 cm (24.5 x 24.5 in) £ 2,000

Nupur Kundu Born 1975 in New Delhi, Nupur Kundu did her BFA in painting from College of Art, New Delhi and is also a trained dancer and recipient of the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award. Her paintings have been exhibited widely in shows held in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata in India and internationally in London, Singapore, Dubai and Paris. Nupur also conducts workshops in painting and is an active participant at art camps and workshops held in various parts of the country and overseas. Nupur has also worked closely with mentally challenged & autistic children by judging various Art Competitions like the one at Rashtrapati Bhawan for The President and that of The Times of India (NIE), Hindustan Times Newspapers. She has held demonstrations for ADAPT, formerly The Spastics Society of India and Monoprint / Mosaic & Collage workshop for the British Council of India, New Delhi. Nupur lives and works in New Delhi.

Untitled III oil on canvas 168 x 69 cm (66 x 26 in) £ 3,250

Untitled I oil on canvas 152 x 76 cm (60 x 30 in) £ 3,250

Untitled II oil on canvas 152 x 76 cm (60 x 30 in) £ 3,250

Paresh Maity Paresh Maity was born in 1965 in West Bengal. While in school he made clay images of gods and goddesses and sold them to earn money for his education. He started painting water-colours of river scenes while still at school and then in oils. He mastered the technique of oil painting at Government College of Art, Kolkata. His single minded determination to acquire formal training paid off when he came to Delhi to join the Delhi College of Art. Paresh has had sixty eight solo exhibitions in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. On the occasion of Rabindra Nath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, an exhibition of water-colours ‘Shesh Lekha’ by Paresh Maity was presented at the National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi and Mumbai. His latest painting, one of the longest in the world is 800f and on display at T3 Terminal at Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi. Paresh featured in the recent Aicon Gallery London exhibition, Remaking the Modern II and is both exhibiting and curating at St. Moritz Art Masters, partnering with the Stellar International Art Foundation, which comprises the private collection of the Choudhrie family. A pioneering collection based in Indian modernism, further contextualising this work amongst the global masters of the present day.

The Blue Haven oil on canvas 91 x 122 cm (36 x 48 in) £15,000

The Eternal Citi oil on canvas 102 x 102 cm (40 x 40 in) £ 15,000

Jayasri Burman Jayasri Burman is a contemporary Indian artist. She studied at the Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan, and at the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. She went to Paris and studied print-making under Monsieur Ceizerzi. Jayasri has been a part of numerous exhibitions across the world: The Three Person Exhibition in Paris, The National Exhibition at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi - as well as at its Regional Centre, Calcutta, 1983–1985. She has worked in the Graphic Art Workshop skippered by Paul Lingren (1984), the Bharat Bhavan Biennial 1984 and the International Triennale, Intergraphic, Germany. In 1987 she featured in the annual exhibition of graphics, paintings and sculptures, at Gallery BF-14, Calcutta. Other shows have included ‘A Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh’ at the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1991 and Urban Signals Shifting Images II at the Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Bombay 1996.

Ganesh Janani watercolour pen & ink 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 in) £7,000

Shree Ganesh watercolour pen & ink 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 in) £7,000

Aisha Caan Aisha Caan was born in 1959, Bombay and subsequently moved to the UK. Aisha studied at the London College of Fashion (1977-1980) and in 2006-2008 gained her MA in Fine Art from Central St Martins School of Art, London. She has since exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Aisha’s work brings together the disciplines of faith and science through the form of contemporary, conceptual art. Art and science, and faith and science, have been inter-linked for centuries, yet many people feel that there is a myth about their unity. For Aisha, this unity exists, as there is an element of spirituality in each of these three disciplines, which is the essence of her work. The narrative of Aisha’s paintings unfolds in a series of layers. Before she even starts to put paint onto canvas she has already worked through preparatory layers, the most important of which is to develop the initial source of inspiration, which requires much research and contemplation. As this contemplation provides layers of discovery and understanding, so the painting itself is built up from a series of layers, with revelations expressed through the varied realisation of colours, processes and techniques in each successive layer. From the initial source of inspiration to the final layer of paint on the canvas Aisha’s work reflects her very spiritual and philosophical nature. She paints from the subconscious and there is a deep appreciation behind every process and technique, every layer upon layer that she applies and every painting she creates.

Order & Chaos mixed media on canvas 81 x 95 cm (32 x 37 in) £ 4,750

Daylight oil on canvas 76 x 76 cm (30 x 30 in) £ 4,000

Structure Creates Division mixed media on board 50 x 40 cm (20 x 16 in) £ 2,750

Life After Death mixed oil on canvas 153 x 127 cm (60 x 50 in) £ 9,000

JayShree Kapoor JayShree Kapoor was born in 1965 in Kenya. Her works are a personal journey of painting in a meditative state, whereby she explores the energies of the Universe. These paintings are spontaneously composed; the process is one of surrender, capturing the intense period of time when the mind is devoid of all thoughts apart from the connection where breath is the essence of life. The paintings are made up of complex layers of colour and texture, with a cosmic energy that is intrinsic to the soul of her work.

Highly individual in style, her work is described as emotional and mysterious, and a place to explore your soul. The power that exudes from these canvases encompasses the viewer and allows them to go on a journey of their own. Following on from the series on breath as the essence of life, she now introduces work on flowers as the manifestations of thought. According to Hindu mythology flowers are the pens with which Mother Earth writes. She expresses all her ideas and desires through flowers. And walking in this unceasing trail of flowers is what connects us to the divine. They distil the essence of the soul. JayShree’s experiment with flowers is her search for the eternal spirit.

Flowers I mixed media on canvas 120 x 150 cm (47 x 59 in) £ 6,000

Flowers II mixed media on canvas 152 x 122 cm (60 x 48 in) £ 6,000

Running Flowers mixed media on canvas 120 x 150 cm (47 x 59 in) £ 6,000

Christina Pierce Christina Pierce received a BA. Hons. degree Central School of Art, London. Her paintings hang on the walls of both County cricket and International players as well as businesses and private collectors and her shows include the Royal Academy of Art, Lords and Brit Oval. Her commissions include a portrait of ex England captain Andrew Strauss and Sachin Tendulkar. She is also the official artist for the Sri Lanka Premier League.

“For this series of paintings, I have started with small sketches, using a variety of mediums, mainly oil on paper, as this gives a great texture when using a dry brush. These I have used as reference for my large acrylic works.

My figurative paintings are usually in oil, as I find this more malleable, but these large abstracts need to be much more immediate and textured, for the effect I am trying to achieve.

These abstracts belong beyond the world of cricket, the imagery balancing on the fine line between depiction of an event and an expression of feeling, pushing the boundaries of composition, chance and colour.

My inspiration comes from the noble game, cricket, which is very much part of my life and has been a great influence on every level, the visual aspects of the game as well as the mental, trying to capture the effervescent spirit of it, with all it’s peaks and troughs.

There have been many artists who have influenced my paintings especially Gustav Klimt and Ben Nicholson, echoed in this series with the use of texture, gold and many layers of paint.”

Sightscreen acrylic on canvas 152 x 122 cm (60 x 48 in) £ 7,500

Wicket acrylic on canvas 152 x 122 cm (60 x 48 in) £ 7,500

Strike acrylic on canvas 152 x 122 cm (60 x 48 in) £ 7,500

Scoreboard acrylic on canvas 152 x 122 cm (60 x 48 in) £ 7,500

Meenu Thakur | Leaves acrylic on paper 31 x 23 cm (12 x 9 in) £ 100All proceeds of the sale of this painting go to Arts For India

Meenu Thakur | Untitled acrylic on paper 30 x 23 cm (12 x 9 in) £ 100All proceeds of the sale of this painting go to Arts For India

Meenakshi | Bags acrylic on paper 30 x 23 cm (12 x 9 in) £ 100All proceeds of the sale of this painting go to Arts For India

Meenakshi | Untitled woodcut on paper 30 x 23 cm (12 x 9 in) £ 100All proceeds of the sale of this painting go to Arts For India

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