It's all in the still

HYDERABAD: Round big eyes, slender hands, pretty figures and alluring faces. All features of some beautiful women. Just drape them in colourful sarees. Lush green fields, flowing streams and undulating waters in the background. Lo! There you've it. A beautiful piece de art.

Yeah. This was the fare rather feeling one had going through the painting works of Sirajuddin at Grand Kakatiya Hotel. And Sirajuddin's characters (mostly rural women) speak to us point blank. In the universal language of hues. The 30-odd `lively' paintings with slick finishing more than presented the myriad moods of these women.

"The paintings are the products of my feelings of rural women and I have tried to capture them in as many moods as possible. They reflect the colour of the Indian rural milieu and the beauty of its women", says the artist, who is presently head of Department of Painting, S.V. College of Fine Arts.

His fascination for the rural women and water colours is seen to be believed. It indeed was a visual feast to the visitors at the art exhibition. Sirajuddin has several awards to his credit and has held several exhibitions.

By R. Ravikanth Reddy

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