A colourful tribute to womanhood

Painters come in various shapes and sizes, each one specializing in his/her own techniques, materials and colours. Satya Srinivas is one among the ilk who has his own USP.

His recent exhibition of water colours and sketches, to be formally inaugurated today at Hamburg Hall, Goethe-Zentrum would be open to the public from August 6-13.

The exhibition is named “# 20 Memoirs”, a depiction of the painter’s journey down the memory lane, homecoming and a tribute to his mother, the inspiration behind this effort.

His paintings comprise profiles of two dozen women whom he has been inspired by and also those who are individually legends and adorable human beings in their own right.

Perhaps, given that older women become a delight for artists like him as their profiles, with deep creases and contours enable the finishing touches to be delivered better.

Srinivas prefers water colours because ‘it exists in three forms like the multi-faceted nature of mothers and grannies’.

He began his tryst with painting in 1982 working in ‘Satya Kala’, a screen printing and graphic designing unit as an apprentice and later formally learning it under a master, Narendra Rai from 1984-87.

Over the years, Satya Srinivas has worked closely with civil society organizations as a development consultant, apart from his multi-level engagements as a poet, painter and photographer.

He has two published books in Telugu, both anthologies and one in English, a collection of environmental poems titled ‘Floating Tree’.

In the past two decades, he has held painting exhibitions in both paintings and photography on community forest management and his exhibitions on environment have won prizes, one from Max Mueller Bhavan in 1996.