Trust playing significant role in promoting art & culture of the country: Anuradha Rishi
JAMMU,30-12-2022 : The national art workshop organised by Master Sansar Chand Baru Trust Jammu and Kashmir in collaboration with North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala, Punjab, Ministry of Culture, has entered in the fourth day today.
Trustee Baru Trust, Anuradha Rishi said that perseverance and hard work are the two attributes which form the basis for success and for a career in arts, patience is another vital constituent in one’s personality to achieve the ultimate goals. She said that the Trust always preferred to provide support to people living in remote and far off places because normally this lot remained deprived of the facilities which their counterparts get while dwelling in an urban life full of facilities.
The Baru Trust has achieved many feats in the past for playing a significant role promoting the art and culture of the country besides providing seamless opportunities to the artists hailing from various backgrounds and contours of different art forms. The trust is relying on artists from various parts of the country to showcase their art work in the aforesaid train stations and in return is promising handsome remuneration.
Lokesh Kumar, one of the participants of the art workshop, said that Master Sansar Chand Baru Trust Jammu and Kashmir is doing a great job by holding such workshops which act as game changers for the young lot living in rural hamlets with limited facilities. He said that he felt elated for being the part of this camp which is providing help to young lads of villages.
Vijay Chouhan, another participant said there is no dearth of talent among the children of these faroff hamlets but due to lack of opportunity and edifice, they could not achieve what they deserve and the way the Baru Trust is kindling hope in them, one day these children will surely make a mark in the society by coming out with flying colours.
Artist Rohit Verma of Jammu while explaining his painting stated that his pictorial format speaks of simple and sentient life and the splendor of nature’s bounties. He asserted that it provides an effective healing touch motivating us to stay away from materialistic life.
Artist Rakesh Sharma of Jammu said his work revolves around the son of the soil and a legendary sculptor V.R. Khajuria that is reflecting his unabated stream of visual art like the Banyan Tree that is centrally placed with buntings representing festivity. He added that Khajuria’s genre serves as deity for the viewers.
Kamal Nain Bhan while conveying her outlook about art stated that she creates natural yet imaginative scenes by experimenting with multiple mediums on the canvas.
Yousuf Naqshbandi said that he has shown bonds of nature depicting Kashmir’s social life using Chinar leaves extensively in his paintings.
Afshan Ali through his paintings has tried to alert the people against the dying art and craft like pinjarakari and old house architecture showing Dubb and glazed khanjari tiles.
MY Bacha showed Kashmir landscape in different moods using abstract art.
Javed Lahal beautifully used his creativity to present a Kashmiri tea pot called Samawar in abstract art that leaves the viewers spellbound.
Similarly Iftekhar Wani has painted Autumn in a dramatic colour combination; Susheel Kumar Bhola depicted nature in simple shapes creating visual entertainment and Gokul Dembi divided the canvas into different spaces to create present multiple perspectives in a single frame.
Last but not the least Amit Anand’s painting carries the portrait of Pt Madan Mohan Malvia, the great leader and educationist. He said that he has paid tribute to the great leader in the portrait through symbolic representation of a book and candle.
