ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: A show of bright colours to dazzle the art space will open at the Nomad Art Gallery on Saturday.
This interplay of colours and concepts is brought by three landscape and nature, abstract and figurative painters who range in experiences.
Movement and light play different roles in each artist’s work, but what binds their pieces together for the show is the richness of colours.
The display begins on the left of the gallery with abstract works of Seyhr Qayum who is a fourth year student at Boston University, studying Painting with a minor in Art History.
Seyhr Qayum offers abstract energy in contemporary paintings on large canvases. In her second group show at Nomad, the painter keeps her tradition alive with female figures and architecture hidden behind dripping paints and good strokes. She finds her own style with hints of self representation.
Equally attractive works come from Riffat Khattak who is a freelance artist. He has a diploma in Fine Arts from Peshawar University. His water colours and calligraphic paintings have been awarded and appreciated. He has participated in many art shows.
In this particular exhibition, Riffat Khattak has evolved from a landscape painter in a thought provoking approach at figurative and calligraphic impressions.
Pushing the boundaries, his monochromatic water colour escapes from the canvas on to the edges of the frame and brimming over the frame.
Trained at the Swain School of Design, Massachusetts, USA Asma Abbasi, has been painting and holding solo and group shows over the last several years, both locally and internationally.
Asma Abbasi paints primarily almost photographic landscapes in both watercolour and oil but finds oil to be rewarding as a medium both visually and spiritually.
To the artist her paintings are a hope and a gesture to bring joy to the viewer in its full and complete form.
The exhibition also boasts of jewelry and crafts display. Asadur Rehman who is a French abstract expressionist painter, jewelry designer and sculptor of Pakistan origin also brought his exclusive designs.
They are pure silver with attractive stones, coral, pearl, etc. His mature work appears to be influenced by French artists, where he has studied and has been living for more than two decades. He believes that abstract art is a way to achieve what is really important and eachmedium of expression.
Azeem Iqbal, a known name in the arts community, is appreciated and awarded for his calligraphy works and has had numerous exhibitions local and internationally. However, he also designs exclusive jewelry which presents Islamic motifs. In his art pieces he has used leather, metal, bamboo, lapiz and different kind of rock stones.
Exclusively designed range of apparel in handloom cotton fabric with embroidery in variety of colours by home based women workers, living around Taxila and outskirts of Rawalpindi are also on display.