Creating their own unique and distinctive style

Shrishti Art Gallery presents art exhibition called "Triloka", the worlds of three emerging artists. This exhibition is a journey into the world of three artists from India and Bangladesh each with unique styles.

The exhibition showcases works by Rinku Choudhary, Protyusha Mitra and Dinar Sultana. These artists showcased their works at during Emerging Palettes 2018, an annual exhibition that Shrishti does with Goethe Zentrum.

It is a platform for emerging artists to showcase their work. "Last year we received more than 150 applications from which 13 artists were selected for the exhibition. Of these, we extended an invitation to three artists to showcase a larger body of work as part of Triloka 2019," says Lakshmi Nambiar, owner of Shrishti.

Rinku Choudhary is from New Delhi and is currently working as assistant professor in the College of Art, Delhi University. She completed her MFA and BFA in painting from the College of Art, Delhi University in 2018 and 2016 respectively

The 27-year-old artist was and is going through depression and she wants to show this to the world. Rinku says, "My work emerges as a personal response to my immediate environment and representation of my daily life struggles with family , never-ending negative thoughts, anxiety issues and the depressed state of mind.

Depression is a sense of unfeeling despair and constant sorrow. Anxiety is feeling a lot all at once. It's constant apprehension. I chose this topic as to see myself and my emotions objectively. I try to make these internal deep experiences external , through my works."

By presenting her own stories, she tries to capture the raw essence of anxiety through different mediums on paper and canvas. Most of her works come out to be dark, and they portray that feeling of isolation. Rinku says, "Through this personal journey, I have grown and found that depicting my fears in works has become therapeutic."

Artist Protyusha Mitra from Kolkata is from Santiniketan, West Bengal. She completed her MVA in Painting from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat in 2018 and her BFA in painting from Kala Bhavana Visva Bharati, Santiniketan in 2016. She is a freelance artist based in Santiniketan.

Protyusha is exhibiting five individual colourful plates and two set of drawings, one includes three drawings and the other five. Her medium of work is pen and ink and mixed media on paper.

"I have grown up in Santiniketan and I saw the changes in the city. Not only in Santiniketan but even the nearby villages also developed which visually and nature wise," says 25-year-old Protyusha.

"Architecture plays a salient role in my works. Previously I used discarded, decayed wooden pieces, which itself carries a human manipulated history to portray the gray cityscapes and distortions of the natural views.

The old yet beautiful architectural traditions face threats of destruction . The visual design changes as the city grows everyday. But yet they continue to retain the rhythm of visual pleasure in the grey contemporary geometry. This new set of work is about natural yet man-made, history, nostalgia. A continuous process of change. The geometrical motifs play mysterious role in architectural spaces. These play of design finds balance into distortion," shares Protyusha.

Another participating artistDinar Sultana is from Bangladesh. She completed her MVA in Painting from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat in 2017 and BFA in painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan in 2015. She is currently working as a freelance artist and is one of the organiser and co-curator of "Art Festival Gazipur", 2019, Bangladesh.