Vaman Pai’s solo show captures the rain in all its glory

“My hometown is celebrated for its beaches, temples and the lush greenery during monsoons. Growing up successful the midst of each this quality inspired maine to go an artist,” says Vaman Pai, who hails from Udupi successful Mangalore.

The artist, whose 4th solo amusement is presently underway successful the city, says the accumulation titled Nature Scapes is his monsoon bid successful abstract mode. “I enactment successful Manipal and tin spot the changes successful the scenery — before, aft and during the rain. My location is by the seashore and astatine nighttime 1 tin perceive the waves arsenic they emergence and fall. I support each these sights and sounds successful my caput and determination them into my paintings.”

The 20-odd canvases connected show person been created utilizing acrylic, lipid and watercolours connected canvas. Though untitled, they are numbered and travel a Nature Scapes’ sequence. When Mother Nature is your inspiration, determination is ne'er a fearfulness of moving adust and Vaman is nary exception.

“I person a person who lives down the Udupi railway presumption and I would walk a batch of clip there, arsenic good arsenic astatine Malpe Beach, Manipal’s End Point Park (a cliff overlooking the Swarna River) and the delta wherever the stream meets the sea.”

“I bring each of that into my abstractions,” helium says.

The beingness of an creator is not ever casual and Vaman says it was his precocious schoolhouse creation teacher who archetypal recognised his earthy endowment and persuaded his parent to see an creator vocation for her child.

“Despite her reluctance, my parent introduced maine to creator GS Shenoy whom she knew, and successful 1991, helium began mentoring maine connected aluminium embossing and of course, the nuances of painting. He was my archetypal creation teacher and erstwhile helium passed distant successful 1994, I continued to larn nether his lad Gurudas Shenoy.”

Providence enactment Vaman successful the way of immoderate of the champion names successful the business. “While I was astatine the Artisans Training Centre successful Bidadi wherever I had enrolled to survey metallic enactment and embossing, my creation teacher, A Raja, was my guide. Later, I was fortunate to enactment with the legendary MF Husain astatine Husain Sankalana successful Bengaluru from 1995,” helium says, adding their relation implicit the adjacent 15 years, helped him turn arsenic an creator and travel into his own.

Nature Scapes, a solo amusement by Vaman Pai, is connected astatine the MKF Museum of Art till October 19, 2025