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Kathmandu Wednesday November 21, 2001 Marga 06, 2058.
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Mona is back again with her
unique creation
By Ranjana Pradhan
KATHMANDU, Nov 20 - When Mona was just two
years old, her father made her use the paint and brush. This later prompted her to
continue using this as a medium to express her feelings. And today, she has become an avid
painter, spending most of her time on the canvas.
"Every Sunday my family used to go for a
weekly outing when I was two," recalls Mona Ghosh. At the end of the day her father
used to make her do homework for a whole week by painting everything that she saw during
the outing. "That is how my interest in art grew," says this Bengali painter.
She came here to display her works last year.
"My liking and interest in Kathmandu has brought me here again," she says.
Her creativity is clearly seen in her
collection of colourful whirlwind paintings. In most of these paintings she has tried to
capture the sentiments expressed in calligraphic works, which made her works unique. Both
of them have a great fusion of colours and a balance between what can be seen and
imagined. She uses mixed media, oil and acrylic for her works.
In her exhibition titled "Colour of my
mind," Ghosh has expressed her feelings in bright and colourful shapes, mostly in
red.
"Calligraphic Dreams" is the theme
she has given to her new collection of 16 paintings. "I have tried to convert
expressional letters into visuals through my art," she explains about her recent
abstract works.
Mona’s paintings excel in feelings,
mostly on the basic of line, texture and colour. She describes her work as the
"combination of colours, lines, motion and feeling." It took nearly two years
for this Bengali beauty to complete her exquisite collection of 54 paintings.
A Graduate from the Government College of Art
and Craft, Kolkata, India, Mona has a large number of solo, group exhibitions and
workshops to her credit. She was recently awarded India’s National Scholarship Award
in 2001 in recognition of her works in this field.
The immensely beautiful temples of Kathmandu
and the redness of the town intrigued Mona the most. Ever since her first exhibition, she
has been tempted to visit the city so much that her seven months pregnant self could not
stop her from missing this opportunity of coming here and displaying her work to the
Nepalese people.
Her solo exhibition at the Alliance Francaise
in Thapathali kicked off on November 20, which will continue till December 2.
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