Rebecca Lloyd
Forever Changed
Rebecca is an American artist known for her bold and dynamic style. She works in both watercolor and acrylic mediums. She has been selling her artwork professionally in the United States for over seven years and has been painting all her life. Rebecca has had many solo exhibitions and was an exclusive artist for the celebrated Gilmore Collective Gallery. Her artwork has been featured in the media and proceeds from her artwork have supported charitable groups within the United States and now India. She has been living in India for several years, where she has been working on her newest collection.
Artist Statement : My painting, “Forever Changed” was created exclusively for this charity. This painting demonstrates the immeasurable pride and hope that accompanies the transformation that takes place when an individual becomes a parent. As a mother, I dream of my own daughter reaching her full potential. By donating this work of art, I hope to help another mother or child realize this same dream.
Asha Menghrajani
Fusion Earth
Asha grew up in the Philippines, and traveled extensively before choosing the United States as her home in 1992. She has extensive training in charcoal drawing, oil, chinese watercolor painting and fabric design. She fuses all her knowledge together into a rich mixed media process.In her paintings, Asha presents chaos as the perfection that it is, allowing for complete surrender. Her painting transports you from reality to a vibrant, mystical and abstract world, where you are the story teller, creating and interpreting your own stories.
Artist Statement : "My process in painting is one which is more meditative and intuitive. I experience calmness, peacefulness and solitude. I believe that making art feels good and brings pleasure to others. Looseness and uncertainty, above all, are important to my interpretation of the mysterious energy of the spirit."
Aparna Malladi
Scarf Amateur Music
Born and raised in India, Malladi is a self - taught artist and has been painting since early 2009. She works with watercolor on paper. She is also an award winning filmmaker.
Education: B.Tech., Chemical Engineering - Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, MS, Microbiology & Immunology - University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA.
Exhibitions:
Lost Souls Cafe & Gallery, Los Angeles - Group Show, March 2009
The Loft, Los Angeles - Group Show, July 2009
MoonDog Studio, Frankfurt - Group Show, March 2010
Art Residencies: Canserrat, El Bruc, Spain, August 2009
Artist Statement: My paintings are self-portraits with narratives. I use recurring motifs, bright colors and metallic paints to create richness, dynamism and humor.
Magunta Dayakar
Black, White and Red series
From humble beginnings in Andhra Pradesh, Magunta Dayakar shot to fame as an acclaimed portrait painter. He is also known nationally for his Lightscape Paintings. Internationally his work is evoking curiosity in art circles. Critics have praised him for his style in paintings, he claims, however never to consciously think of style. He believes style evolves on its own when the artist works continuously with dedication. A number of newspapers and magazines have also published articles on his work. He has written five books on art and creativity. He lives in Hyderabad and has been running a Creative Painting School for children and elders for the last 12 years.
Artist Statement : I paint…., Why? Because whenever I do it, I enjoy it. Why do I enjoy it? Is it Money? ... Not really.. Then... is it fame? I have experienced it, it is fleeting. Not much pleasure lies there. Then what ?
Painting gives me an enormous sense of power…., Why? In most of my paintings, I am literally capturing the power of Nature. Capturing that awesome power, empowers me and it truly is intoxicating.. My work appears aggressive?…..It is merely reflecting the true character of nature.
Simply put, I am not trying to paint Nature, instead I paint its character. How can a mere human capture the essence of nature without experiencing it in its entirety?. To experience it, I travel….in my own mind. My imagination takes me to every corner of the universe. This exquisite journey expresses itself through my paintings. Why do I paint? it is my reason for being……- Dayakar Magunta
Kanth Risa
Hanging T-shirts
Kanth Risa was born and brought up in a small town in Mahboobnagar and moved to Hyderabad years ago with an open mind period.
Artist Statement : Living in the moment and relishing every minute to the fullest is my outlook to life. I said to myself, “I will have no morose or regrets in going back home if my ideas about art and about the kind of work I want to do bear no fruit.” I always pour my heart out on canvases but I am not the kind of person anybody with urban sensibilities would call ‘ambitious’. In fact, the ways of city life amused me during my initial years in Hyderabad.
For me, art is an internal revolution. I have been through different phases in my life resisting or fearing none of its ebbs and tides. That is how I continue to live. Sometimes I have let my art reflect a certain phase. While at other times it is my observation on current society, its dilemmas, and the existential anxiety of individuals it is peopled by.
But most of the times the art is objective - I believe that one just needs to be there, soak in the experience of gazing and marveling at a piece of art. With due respect to the press and art critics, I would say that interpretations, analysis, reviews and critique are not always required. Likewise, I have also been just as objective when I painted those very pieces. Objective art has its own quality to transform.
I held exhibitions and installations on international platforms. I live in Hyderabad and love to travel. I go for long walks listen to soothing music.
Contact: Kanth’risa-9177908556
Yolanda moss
Qutub Shahi Tombs
Born to an Indian father and a Dutch mother, Yolanda has lived and studied in India. She is sixteen and is currently completing her tenth standard. She developed a love for art at an early age and has since experimented with sketches, charcoal, water colours and pencils.
The Qutub Shahi tombs, her first oil painting, combines Yolanda’s love of nature with one of the rich and historical landmarks of Hyderabad. Through the fading sunset colours, Yolanda expresses the beauty of the setting era of sultans.
Sriniwas Hari
Impressions
Hari Srinivas experiments with a medley of techniques and styles, moving from the abstract to the mundane, whether it's horses racing through foaming water or patterns of triangles and petals enclosing charcoal figures. Srinivas doesn't stick to any single medium, and his works can be found in water colours, acrylic and oil colours.
Hari Srinivas runs his own local ad agency. Advertising personnel by profession and painter by choice, he believes in being true to himself and above all says that if you cannot put your heart in something, you must take yourself out of it. His works were exhibited twice at the ICCR Art Gallery.
Hari Srinivas runs his own local ad agency. Advertising personnel by profession and painter by choice, he believes in being true to himself and above all says that if you cannot put your heart in something, you must take yourself out of it. His works were exhibited twice at the ICCR Art Gallery.
A graduate of the JNTU College of Fine Arts, art was always his profession and hobby, and whenever he finds time, he puts his thoughts on canvas.
Artist Statement : "My paintings are basically oil and acrylic in nature. I believe there is a dearth of oil painting artists as it's a challenging genre. It takes a considerable amount of time to make a single oil painting as there are many factors that contribute to it. The weather has to be optimum for the paint to dry and so on."
"Behind every successful man is a woman; my wife Anita is my inspiration. Even though I have a long way to go as this is an exceptionally challenging field, I can always count on Anita to give me much needed encouragement"
Deepa Naik
Girl Girl Sitting
Vivek Rao
Vivek Rao’s works are a mixture of stark themes, vibrant colors and thought provoking ideas. He is an ardent nature lover and his work reflects this passion. His concern for the environment is evident in his oil and acrylic paintings, where a representation of mankind’s impact on the environment is vividly portrayed. Vivek’s art work reflects the vast amount of his worldwide travels and brings to the canvas various points of view of life and its twists and turns. Vivek is an idealist who loves people, life and all things beautiful, and his work reflects this. Currently Vivek is the owner/co-promoter of a boutique art gallery cum coffee lounge in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Ridhima
Artist Statement : Discovery occurred to me at very tender age. Nature helped me a lot both as a source of inspiration and as a teacher. My first steps were so pleasant, because the trial and error in it taught me more lessons about life you lose, you gain it always added a lot and strengthened me.
The changing colors of nature, season wise, the warmth, the chill, the wetness both, the appearance and disappearance of things in nature is a visual delight for the one, who is in treat.
Colors taught me the shades and depths of life. The variations of color due to refraction of light gave me the multi dimensional view of things around me. The more interacted with lines, colors, textures, mediums, fulfillment was joyful but saturation was far off. Miles to go........
Canvassing the feelings, emotions, thoughts, and struggles as a woman is always I talking to the world. It both relaxes and recharges my senses in the process of exploring my soul.
Few moments of my life:
The moment I touched 'NANDI'(for Best Screenplay for 'Manchupushpam', a telefilm) an award instituted by the Govt. of AP, I realized the momentum and energy an award pumps into an awarded, in all his/her future endeavours, above all the responsibility it vested on me, brought stability into my life.
Chitralekhanam is my everything. I vested all my energies into it to mould as a platform for all the art enthusiasts. It is more like an artist creating atmosphere for fellow artists and would be artists. It is like a community with societal cause. Since its inception in2003 in Srinagar colony, with a few students and has grown and branched out and is now a self sufficient and can shelter and feed the cause it meant for. What more I need except wishing the saga run through generations.
A pat with appreciation for my works came from the person I never expected. Dr.Y.S.Rajasekhara reddy, former CM of Andhra Pradesh has all the praise for the paintings and the murals, I have done at his camp office.
My painting making way into the collection of Bharata ratna, Dr.APJ Abdul kalam. O God enough, I am blessed..........
MKG: Mahatma Gandhi- Imaging Peace, Truth & Ahimsa.
Birad Yajnik, President of Visual Quest India and Visual Quest Books, the production and publishing companies with headquarters right here in Hyderabad, has been pushing the limits of visual expression through information technology for the last decade.
Visual Quest Books has sold over 35,000 copies of their publications in the past four years as a result of their extensive attention to detail, content quality, and beautiful handcrafted packaging.
Their most recent publication, MKG: Mahatma Gandhi- Imaging Peace, Truth & Ahimsa, chronicles the life, practices, and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi through the art of photography with 200 images displayed over 325 pages, hand bound in silk, titled with brushed metal and encased in pinewood. Each book is certified and copy numbered.
Each MKG book is a limited edition of the publication that was honored at the United Nations on October 2nd of this year in celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence and previewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the following day.
Along with the limited edition, that has been numbered, signed, and embossed with the company’s certification, Mr. Yajnik is also including six frame-ready, numbered prints of the Mahatma to the new owner of MKG: Mahatma Gandhi- Imaging Peace, Truth & Ahimsa, as his gift.
