Lucknow: Amid family obligations and household chores, seven women decided to showcase their passion for art through an exhibition called ‘Art by Heart’ at the State Lalit Kala Academy.
The event held on Friday was attended by actor Anil Rastogi. He praised the exhibition, noting the impressive display of creativity, particularly highlighting the fact that all artists were women.He described art as expression of an artist’s imagination on canvas, a beautiful journey of self-expression. The exhibition featured 70 paintings, each demonstrating the artists’ skills with acrylic, oil and water colours, highlighting various themes such as portraits, nature, Madhubani and mandala.
Kalpana Chaudhary, one of the artists, shared her lifelong passion for portraiture, relating the art with her spiritual journey. While Mamta Prakash Srivastava focused on women empowerment, using acrylic and oil colours to convey her message, Vibha Tiwari expressed her desire to teach art to underprivileged children. The exhibition also featured hand-painted Madhubani jute bags, fridge stickers, earrings, key rings and small wall canvases by Binita Rastogi. Seven women artists, whose artworks were displayed at the exhibition, were Anjali Pandeya, Binita Rastogi, Kalpana Chaudhary, Mamta Prakash Srivastava, Shikha Banerjee, Sumita Siddhartha and Veena Singh.
(Inputs from Akshat Kandya)
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