A season of colour: Coimbatore gallery showcases works by Kongu Oviya Kalai Kuzhu

Vibrant horses frozen mid-gallop, textured floral canvases, charcoal crows and Rajasthani women successful colourful attire — the ongoing accumulation astatine Kasthuri Sreenivasan creation assemblage offers visitors a glimpse of the divers creator worlds of the Kongu Oviya Kalai Kuzhu, that consists of artists V Rajendhran, Kumanan, Murugesan, Ramamoorthy and Govindarajulu.

Around 70 paintings by the 5 artists from varied creator backgrounds are connected display. From realistic carnal portraits to abstract modern works, each canvas reflects a chiseled creator identity. Works connected show are a play connected colour, texture, and technique, and are a testament to the artists’ mastery implicit their trade and attraction to detail.

Rajendhran’s postulation prominently showcases works themed connected textile design, customised to suit the preferences of radical of assorted nationalities. Explaining his process, helium says that helium converts manual designs into computer-generated patterns for textile production. He has employed techniques specified arsenic weapon enactment and spray painting, taking 2 to 3 days to implicit 3 watercolour works.

Rajendhran hopes that much radical sojourn exhibitions similar these to amended recognize the creativity and effort progressive successful textile designing. He feels that the show tin peculiarly payment students learning manner and textile plan by helping them summation deeper penetration into creator techniques and plan concepts.

Artist Kumanan’s postulation includes acrylic canvas paintings successful which brushwood strokes lucifer weapon coating techniques. His works span aggregate styles, including watercolours and charcoal pencil sketching. One of his charcoal sketches captures the backmost of an elephant, highlighting intricate detailing done cautiously layered strokes.

His paintings mostly gully inspiration from Nature, featuring animals, fruits and temple motifs. Apart from paintings, Kumanan, who is besides a sculptor, has presented a fistful of his sculptures. Here, alternatively of utilizing paint, helium has experimented with covering surfaces with seeds to make a unsocial ocular texture. He has besides done poster colour paintings of Lord Ganesha successful mostly ochre shades.

The accumulation besides features 5 charcoal sketches by creator Ramamoorthy, each centred connected the taxable of crows. Although based connected a azygous subject, each sketch presents the vertebrate successful a unsocial creator benignant and composition.

Another artist, Govindarajulu, showcases paintings inspired by rustic colony beingness and Rajasthan-style portraits of women, portion creator Murugesan’s works seizure flowers, forests, birds, horses and earthy landscapes.

A striking diagnostic crossed the accumulation is texture painting, a method successful which artists make a three-dimensional effect utilizing clay earlier coating the remainder of the canvas. The method gives respective artworks a lifelike quality and adds extent to the ocular experience.

Rajendhran speaks astir the changing preferences of creation buyers crossed the world. According to him, buyers from the Gulf countries often similar paintings featuring ample floral patterns and decorative designs, portion radical from China and Japan are much inclined towards modern abstract art. “Our paintings person greater appreciation and orders from overseas than wrong India,” adds the creator whose artwork has recovered a spot successful a depository successful London.

Through a blend of accepted skill, experimentation and planetary influence, the accumulation offers visitors not conscionable paintings, but stories shaped done colour, texture and imagination.

The show, portion of the AURORA Series 2026, is connected till May 17, 10am to 6.30pm astatine Kasthuri Sreenivasan Art Gallery & Textile Museum, Avinashi Road, Coimbatore. Call 2574110