Anjali Sircar
Source: Newindpress on Sunday (Original Article)
Artist Jaspal Singh’s paintings, may bear titles of peoples and places but that does not mean that his charming portrait of a woman against palm trees and the sea, or his paintings of the Mathura and Vrindavan temples jostle with each other. They are made at different times, in different mediums, only that the artist thinks of the inherent relation within our surroundings, and that finds an important place in his paintings.
Born in Jorhat, Assam, Jaspal graduated from the Dibrugarh University in Fine Arts and later on went to the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta. He has experimented with watercolours on paper, acrylic on paper and canvas, worked in wood and clay and, thereby his creativity spans a gamut of elegant works.
Explaining his concept and method of work, he says: “The urban buildings, vehicles and roads appear to me as submerged or overlapped images. Often the fog, the pollution and the smoke create a gloomy atmosphere and sometimes a bright light can be seen in nocturnal scenes. Human figures also intrude in these scenes, but it is not the figures but the images that predominate and creation of a total and not individual objects appear to be more predominant. All these scenes sometimes appear to me more than one vibrant colour, or again in certain monochromatic structural images.â€
He is also fascinated by kaleidoscopic and erratic changes in our daily surroundings. The concrete shapes and forms of an urban scene, or the flowers, leaves and birds with the freshness and simplicity of the village folks appear to him in the form of peculiar textures. The elongated human face with diagonal eyebrows and sharp nose are created with the help of broken lines partly covered with thick pigments of colours. Sometimes their exaggerated features try to express the untold words and with them, “I simply love to play with colours.â€
His temperament is totally different while working with watercolours. So Travel tips much so, the work has to …continue reading