All women's exhibition of art

An all women's exhibition here delves deeper into the inner recesses of a woman's mind in an attempt to gauge her different moods through colorful works of art.
Titled "Creative Strokes," the month-long exhibition that opened today at the Lalit Hotel here has on display over 25 artworks by six contemporary artists from different backgrounds and schools of thought and serves as a platform to share ideas, thoughts, concepts and experiences of a woman.
The participating artists depict different shades of mood and life through their paintings, which are rich in colour that lends them impact, depth and mood.
Pune-based artist Madhuri Bhaduri, is exhibiting six of her recent oil paintings at the show, three each from the 'Reflections' and 'Horizons' series.

Bhaduri's paintings are a riot of colours. She has painted the same earth, water and sky, in three different shades of colour rendering an independent meaning to each picture.
Each colour in her paintings, Bhaduri says, holds beauty, significance and resonance.

"From red symbolic of life and blood, green stands for rejuvenation, while blue represents peace and divinity, yellow is for the radiance of the sun. Orange gives one deep insight and black embodies an infinite, unfathomable void that sometimes overtakes our lives," the artist explains.
For her, "discovering abstraction is much deeper than a play of colour."
"Abstracts are about the person you are. They help you understand and work out the complexity of your own emotions. As form dissolves in abstracts, color takes on a fundamental importance," she says.

City-based artist Aarti Zaaveri merges figures into form, creating a "timeless moment. Colors evidently dominate her work, as she dissects life in all its intricacies.
She showcases four of her paintings from 'Time' series which is based on time, the most valuable asset of a person's life.
"This series is based on a simple question - 'Is it us who made time or time that has made us what we are?' Time is an important dimension of the universe and an essential component of life," the artist says.
She captures the incessant transformation underway in the universe, while challenging the conventional beliefs.

"Every moment, the universe is changing or so it may seem. But is it really changing? In totality there is no change."
Zaveri has also done a commissioned series for the Defence Ministry as part of which she had made portraits of the Param Vir Chakra winning soldiers and martyrs of the Indian Army. The portraits currently adorn the corridors of South Block here. The selling show is scheduled to continue till May 25.