Srinibas Lenka

The ever-changing hues of sky, the constant rush of clouds, the eternal chirping of birds, the silence of the roads, all this and more makes me forget where am I. Amidst this hide and seek the search for my very own existence is lost and found many times over again and again. Yes, it’s difficult to forget the known world yet it’s easy to get drown down into your very own thoughtful lane. Urban Street, the concrete jungle, a harbor town, flash of memory, unraveled thought, whatever it is but reveals a mysterious unknown voice that sounds very own.
However hard I try to recreate the known landscapes of Gangtok, the scarlet Red sky of Kalimpong, the dense Green of Timi tea gardens, the flowing gold of Kanchendzonga at dawn, the mad rush of Seven Sister Water falls but my pallets can never recall the true colors of mother nature.
I stand still and gaze my canvas for hours trying to paint an unknown landscape and elements of nature not inspired but of very own.
I have seen so many landscapes through the eye of Van Gough, Turner and modern age painter Ramkumar, but my existence is established by My spread of colors.
Necessity is the mother of invention and it reflects in the process of creation. So I select spatula in place of brushes. In my vision the rich stock of colors on spatula show an ingredient part of nature. When I stand in front of my paintings, colors play a virtual reality, from a distance they remind of my own land very known yet very different.
Though as a cost accountant, the cost analysis of life’s account shows a debit of my forgone profession, lost somewhere in the nature in 1995.
Srinibas

Solo Exhibition:

1995 At Rourkela, Rourkela House (Orissa)
2000 Theme Gallery, New Delhi.

2010 Trivani kala sangam, trivani gallery ,New delhi
2010 Birla academy of art and culture.Kolkata
2012 Sridharani Art Gallery. New Delhi
2015 Trivani kala sangam, Trivani Gallery, New delhi
2016 Convention foyer, India habitat Center, New delhi.

Group Shows :

1994 All India Art Exhibition-Mahakosal Kala Parisad
All Orissa Youth Art Exhibition.
1995 Group Show Academy of fine Arts, Calcutta.

Group Show Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
Group Show Gallery Aurobindo, New Delhi

1996 Group show Academy of fine art , Calcutta
Youth Fastival , New Delhi

1997 Annual Exhibition Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta.

1998 Group Show at Gallery Alternative
M.E.C. Art Gallery
Group Show Gallery Aurobindo,
Indian Habitat Centre Group Show.

2001 Radi-i-son Art Gallery Banglore.

2007 Miniature Contemporary art of India. Curator Sapna Das for Image Art Gallery Banglore

2008 Workshop of painting with SPACE , RAI foundation
“AAGAZ” group show Habitat center. New Delhi
2010 video installation “ jhanda ooncha rahe hamara ” at open wall Kala Bhavan, Santineketan.W.B
MELANGE - Group Show at Habitat center , New delhi

2012 TRYST WITH COLOURS –II at Habitat Center . New Delhi

2013 TRYST WITH COLOURS – III at Habitat center ,New Delhi.


International:

1991 Group Show with Korean Artists (at Citizen Hall)
Group Show with Young Artists of Korea at Suk Myung Womens
University Korea

1992 International Show Com-Art Korea.

1994 TICA (Tokyo International Centre of Art) Japan.
Indo-Syrian Art Exhibitio Damascus Syria.

2011 Art Select, Jumirah Emirates Tower Hotel, Dubai

“ Kala Shri ” Award 2012 by Akhil Bharatiya Swatantra Lekhak Mancha
New Delhi.