Artist Shivakumar Sunagar captures unknown landscapes in solo show

Cloud kissed skies, mildly flowing streams, swathes of greenish implicit elevation and plain, waves splashing against the rocks. The sights, sounds and scents of the landscapes Shivakumar Sunagar has presented successful The Spirit of the Land disturbance nostalgia and evoke a wanderlust for the yet unseen.

“The places connected my canvases are not nonstop depictions; they are inspired by my travels,” says Shivakumar. The creator who paints from representation without sketching connected location, adds determination are elements of the imaginary and affectional successful them arsenic well.

The works connected show comprising acrylic connected canvas and watercolour connected insubstantial person been executed implicit the past year, and the creator says they were created from the emotions evoked by the places helium visited. “You overgarment a histrion and it looks existent enough, but the representation besides depicts the unreserved of the feelings I had some erstwhile I saw the histrion and erstwhile I began recreating it.”

“Emotions are dense and layered, and often 1 falls abbreviated of words erstwhile describing the extent of aggravated feeling. This is wherefore successful my work, determination is simply a beingness of abstractions successful the realistic. You cannot explicate an abstract successful words; it is what 1 feels,“ helium says.

Shivakumar, who makes it a constituent to overgarment a portion each day, says helium commits the lights and sounds of a spot to representation and later, adds his ain creation of colours and creativity to a piece.

Even the briefest of glances astatine Shivakumar’s enactment archer you helium is simply a quality lover, but amazingly helium says some the metropolis and state fascinate him. “Both are beauteous successful their ain way. We bash unrecorded successful cities and we can’t constitute them disconnected arsenic being devoid of beauty. They clasp an entreaty which is wherefore we take to unrecorded present oregon other we’d each beryllium surviving successful the forests.”

“Both person their ain aesthetic; you cannot comparison a roseate and a sunflower, they each person their ain unsocial charm.”

Two years ago, helium cycled each implicit Karnataka for adjacent to 2 months, collecting inspiration on the way. “I started from Bengaluru wherever I stay, and rode to Gulbarga, up the Konkan coast, and returned via Kodagu and Mysore,” helium says, adding that helium enjoys the full process — opening with his travels and starting connected a canvas, to adding the last touches to a piece.

Shivakumar who hails from Nagara successful Shivamogga district, travels passim the state and has lived for extended periods of clip successful Gujarat, Delhi and Mumbai, earlier settling successful Bengaluru.

The Spirit of the Land by Shivakumar Sunagar volition beryllium connected show astatine Gallery Time and Space, Lavelle Road till March 22. Entry free, Mondays closed.