About the Artist
Rekha Bhiwandikar
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After completing all my daily family duties, I started spending some quality time for myself, preferably at nights.
This quiet time opened me to a new world of continuous childhood memories. Soon, all these memories started shaping on my drawing paper, as I scribbled. I enjoyed these moments day after day.
The true artist within me got a new subject as a painting project. Transformation of scribbles into a wonderful watercolours painting introduced me to my inner potentials as a visual story teller.
Visual stories that anyone could easily connect with their life journey.
Regular experiment with colour, forms, shapes, textures, compositions, sizes, subjects...kept me truly busy and also wondering about the results that I discovered. My creative journey continues, with the same curiosity every day.
I am sure you will not only enjoy but also relate your childhood with my visual journey.... so please visit and comment on my Facebook and instagram
Dedicated to my dear Mother,
She is no longer around me, but she is still around....read more
In fact, my existence is due to her, which made me friends with colours, lines, shapes. The space of her innumerable memories fills me.
She is my 'inspiration', but she is my 'subject'...I am only a medium.
Every moment that I remember of her association, I want to paint it and bring it into this world. Even though she is no more, but my memories with her are never ending and now transformed into paintings. I call this as he big 'gift' to me that will last all along my lifetime.
Although there have been other challenges such as uncertainty, lockdown since the last few years...I have been managing to continue working with my thoughts, colours, lines, texture, etc., As a result, this continuity of work has given me a gift of a 'powerful line' created using my 'left' hand.
I have spent hours together in front of a blank paper...every painting that you see today is result of that journey to transform memories to reality. As every painting started shaping part by part to the whole, it finally connected naturally with my original subject.
Whenever I have just put my pen on the paper, the picture has naturally formed as a part of the process. I have been witnessing such exalted experiences, every time. Now my line naturally spreads all over with an expression or 'bhav'.
My creative visual journey perhaps consists my mother's unfulfilled dreams.
That is why I always feel 'She is my inspiration' and a 'subject' of all my paintings and I am only a medium.
माझ्या प्रिय आईला समर्पित,
ती आता माझ्या सभोवती नाही,पण तरीही तिची चाहुल आहेच... पुढे वाचा
खरे तर माझे अस्तित्व तिच्यामुळेच आहे, जिने मला रंग, रेषा, आकार यांच्याशी मैत्री शिकवली. तिच्या असंख्य आठवणी माझं विश्व भरून टाकतं. ती माझी 'प्रेरणा' आहे आणि माझ्या चित्रांचा 'विषय' सुद्धा आहे...मी फक्त एक माध्यम आहे.
आई आत्ता प्रत्यक्षात नसली तरी तिच्यासोबतच्या माझ्या आठवणी कधीच संपणार नाहीत. मी त्या सर्व आठवणींना माझ्यासाठीची मोठी 'भेट' समजते. तिच्या सहवासातील आठवणारा प्रत्येक क्षण मला माझ्या चित्रांच्या माध्यमातून रंगवून या जगात आणायचा आहे.
गेल्या काही वर्षांपासून अनिश्चितता, लॉकडाऊन यांसारखी इतर आव्हाने असली तरी मी माझे विचार, रंग, रेषा, पोत इत्यादींसह काम करत राहिले आहे, परिणामी, या कामातील सातत्यामुळे माझ्या 'डाव्या' हाताने तयार केलेल्या 'शक्तिशाली रेषेची' मोठी भेट मला लाभली आहे.
मी कोऱ्या कागदासमोर तासनतास घालवले आहेत...आज तुम्ही पाहत असलेले प्रत्येक पेंटिंग ही आठवणींना वास्तवात रुपांतरित करण्याच्या त्या प्रवासाचा एक भाग आहे. जसजसे प्रत्येक पेंटिंग पूर्णत्वास आकार देऊ लागले, तसतसे ते माझ्या मूळ विषयाशी नैसर्गिकरित्या जोडले गेले.
जेव्हा मी फक्त कागदावर पेन ठेवते, तेव्हा प्रक्रियेचा एक भाग म्हणून चित्र नैसर्गिकरित्या तयार होते. अशा उत्तुंग अनुभवांचा मी प्रत्येक वेळी साक्षीदार होते. आता माझी ओढ साहजिकच एकच भावना सर्वत्र पसरवते.
माझ्या सृजनशील चित्रांच्या प्रवासात कदाचित माझ्या आईची अपूर्ण स्वप्ने आहेत.
म्हणूनच मला नेहमी वाटते की 'ती माझी प्रेरणा आहे' आणि माझ्या सर्व चित्रांचा 'विषय' आहे आणि मी फक्त एक माध्यम आहे.
Artforconcern.org
Artforconcern.org
A graduate from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, Rekha grew up with a deep admiration for her memories. Her works revolve around the theme of depicting the past lifestyles of the middle class, unfolding the childhood memories of a mother-daughter relationship, neighbourhood, surrounding objects etc.
In the contemporary global era, her paintings take us on a journey of past memories of life when it was simple.
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Artist Rekha Bhiwandikar is truly a gem of the person and a very talented artist. Her artworks would make you feel nostalgic about those wonderful days when you were loved and cared by your mother unconditionally.
The team WABC witnessed the inauguration of the event at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and got truly mesmerized with the lovely paintings displayed. We recommend this show a must visit, which is happening until Sunday 29th July 2018.
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