Date:15/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/03/15/stories/2006031517250200.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

As colourful as life in Mumbai

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: M.K. Satheesh Kumar's paintings reflect a lot about the city from where he learnt his art and where he has spent most of his adult life. The paintings much like life in Mumbai is colourful and flamboyant.

Imaginative strokes

In a solo exhibition titled "Work of Art is worth a second look", Satish's paintings come across for their bold strokes and brilliant colours. With vivid and imaginative stokes of blue, red, green and yellow, he covers the canvas completely.

Bold and mellow

Satheesh's paintings are both bold and mellow in turn, especially while depicting themes such as dream, hope and loneliness. His oil canvas titled "Theirs Heaven" makes use of cubism and in the canvas titled "Path Of Eternity", he uses bright and flashy colours including red and pink but is yet able to bring to front a sense of serenity and peace.

Common themes

The painter works with common themes such as winter, spring, gossip and fate. Yet his portrayal of these seasons and activities on canvas is largely different from many contemporaries.

In the canvas "April", Satheesh depicts a woman stepping out of a lily that is just opening and in the canvas "Gossip", he has the face of two women merged together as they focus on gossiping while a man looks on from a distance.

Starting young

Satheesh started to draw at the age of five and received a diploma in Fine Arts from the Ravi Varma Institute of Fine Arts. His illustrations and cartoons have been published in Malayala Nadu and Akshara Keralam.

The painting exhibition will be on at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat till March 20.