Lens for photography, imagination for painting

Different artists portraying their exceptional work on the same platform is what Uchaan is all about. In the times where everything needs experience, Uchaan gives a chance to people, who are good at their work and have scope of development, along with those, who have already mastered it. Recently, Uchaan organised a group exhibition wherein artist from all around the country portrayed their expressions in the form of their artistic work, which included painting, sculptures, photographs and what not! From scenic to spiritual paintings, from causal art-work to 3D and digital paintings, it portrayed various artists and art forms giving a soothing and astonishing experience to all its visitors.

In their last exhibition, Jyoti Kalra, the mind behind Uchaan, took an initiative to teach people from non-artistic background to experience the thought process behind making a sculpture, similarly this time around she has taken the initiative to make people feel the colours and put up their thoughts on a canvas (which was tried by Kameshwari from One World News as well and yes, was were very poor at it) followed by a program, where people can see the artist painting on a canvas right in front of them with an initiative to make people understand different working style of different artists.

Today, we are developing our choices of career, and are growing too. Earlier, especially in Asian countries, it was not possible to think of sketching, sculpting, photography or painting as a full-fledged career. In fact, parents would not even allow their kids to get indulge in any such activity, which would ‘waste’ their time and divert their minds from studies. But now we see a gradual trend of taking up these so called hobbies as a career or getting into artistic field.

However, we keep asking various artists if taking up such career is safe or not and we ended up asking the same to Jyoti Kalra, who is the organiser of the exhibition and is herself an artist. She says, “This is probably a question I would not like to answer because I stand on both sides. This line is all about contacts, as an organiser I have been able to put up exhibitions because I have contacts without which nothing would have been possible. On the other hand, I am an artist too, so, I know how hard it is to get back what you have invested. It is a game of risk because till the time you don’t exhibit your work, you stand nowhere. People discard you because you have no portfolio. On the other hand, if you are exhibiting then it is not sure that your paintings would be taken by the visitor, which is another risk that you are taking. Usually, in my exhibitions I try to give maximum benefits to the artists, who are participating but artists, whose paintings do not sell have no benefit at all and the ones whose art gets sold mostly receives an amount equivalent to their investment only! So yes, it takes a great deal to be an artist.”

The theme of the exhibition was ‘Journey- expression of life’, in which artists have come up with their own expression and ideas of journey. Poonam Saini painted her own son on the canvas showing how he has loosen hope but is determined that he would get to his destination someday soon, and how life makes you experience the journey of happiness, sadness etc., whereas, Taruna Mathur, who is a house wife and has just started to experiment with oil painting, has beautifully portrayed her view on journey through nature. Her paintings are mostly inspired by nature and this time she has portrayed two of her art-works in the exhibition, amongst which, one has shades of white, red and black, where black shows the darkness and white shows hope and animals like rein-deers and birds are confused which way to go. The animals and birds who have found their paths are flying and sorted, whereas others are still in search of it.

Her other painting talks about how people give-up during small difficulties they face, whereas they should be giving themselves one more chance because that is certainly not the end of the story. This has been portrayed through a scenic landscape painting of a forest. If you cannot understand what the painting is all about then too it is perfectly alright because the paintings are so visually soothing that you would just want to take it.

Khingah from Hungary who visited the exhibition said, “I really liked the spiritual paintings and some that portray a forms of nature, I would like to buy them and take them along to decorate my house walls. However, the figurative paintings are bit far from me but the rest are very attractive and nice to see. I also paint back in Hungary but obviously not as good as these paintings. I might even try some of these paintings because I paint looking at some figure.”

Another visitor Anamika Sharma tried her hands on painting and drew a little star on canvas but ended up making herself a canvas completely blotted with paint. “I am terrible at this but it made me realise that how hard it is to get everything bang on. An extra drop of water can end up spoiling your entire canvas, hats-off to all these artists who have presented such an amazing piece of work here.”

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