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Former Chief Secretary and existent Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president K. Jayakumar has played aggregate roles successful life. He has made his people arsenic an head and is rated among the champion lyricists of his generation, with galore of his critically acclaimed Malayalam movie songs bearing the earmarks of classical status.
After a hiatus prompted to immoderate grade by the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Jayakumar has returned to his archetypal passionateness for painting, picking up easels, paints, palette knives and brushes.
His 25th coating exhibition, Glimpses, astatine the Mauve Art Gallery connected June 18, marks Mr. Jayakumar’s instrumentality to Thiruvananthapuram’s creation country aft 4 years.
The accumulation features 22 paintings, including 15 caller works and a fistful of older canvases selected from his earlier collections.
Speaking to the Hindu, Mr. Jayakumar said helium was anxious to cognize however radical volition respond to the paintings calved successful the “cognitive privateness of creativity and the carnal seclusion of the artist’s studio”. Mr. Jayakumar paints astatine home.
Greatest inspiration
“You tin overgarment and support the enactment successful your room. But erstwhile others come, spot it, bask it, criticise it and remark connected it, that becomes the top inspiration for an artist,” helium said
Mr. Jayakumar said Kerala appeared much inclined to admit literate pursuits. “Painting seems to inhabit the 2nd row”, helium said.
“There is simply a question of creator literacy. Kerala is highly literate erstwhile it comes to literature, but we person possibly lagged down a small successful appreciating ocular art,” helium said.
According to Mr. Jayakumar, viewers often attack paintings expecting a fixed meaning, whereas ocular creation communicates done colour, composition, signifier and experience.
Mr. Jayakumar was comparatively precocious to the satellite of painting. The muse of lipid coating called connected him alternatively belatedly astatine the property of 50. Mr. Jayakumar’s years arsenic a bureaucrat successful New Delhi were marked by assemblage visits. He counted galore known painters among his friends. “The originative chaos of the studious stood successful stark opposition to the trimness of the administrative beingness I was habituated to for agelong years,” helium said.
Glimpses does not travel a azygous theme. However, Mr. Jayakumar said an “underlying affectional thread” connects his paintings. He said “creative restlessness” marked his agelong hours successful the studio. “Imperfections inspire. They acquisition a serenity to the artists erstwhile they lavation the brush for the night,” helium added.
(The writer, Malavika Devi J.R., is an intern with The Hindu, Thiruvananthapuram)
