A dextrous recreation of diverse landscapes
The Hindu
Self-taught artist Sireesha Srinivas showcases her love for Nature in her first solo show in Puducherry, "Resonance". Her works, mainly in oil and acrylic, capture the beauty of mountains, dales, lakesides and rolling hills. Her impressive dexterity in shade, tone and depth has earned her recognition in Delhi, Jaipur, Jammu, Amritsar, Goa and Dubai. Her works have been displayed in various places, including IFFCO Gallery, Hyderabad Airport and Srinagar. Her paintings reflect the scenic beauty and spiritual vibe of the city.
There is a consummate finesse to the works of landscape artist Sireesha Srinivas that belies her self-taught evolution in the avocation.
Ms. Sireesha, who is the wife of Puducherry Director General of Police B. Srinivas, opened, “Resonance”, her first solo show in the city, at The Exhibition House on Goubert Avenue, on Tuesday.
The expo showcasing 92 of her paintings, that capture Nature across various avatars, from the cross-section of mountains and dale to lakesides and rolling hills, is on till November 18.
“It is quite self-evident, isn’t it”, the artist smiles alluding her love for Nature that has found expression in her works, which are predominantly in oil and acrylic mediums. It follows that visitors to the exhibition will come across titles such as ‘Celestial Peaks’, ‘Spectrum Splendour’ or ‘Hills of Harmony’.
For someone who is an entirely self-made artist, Ms. Sireesha exhibits impressive dexterity in how she handles shade and tone and dimensions of depth and perspective across a diversity of her landscape portrayals.
Her first solo exhibition was ‘Glimpses of the Vale’ at the Hungarian International Cultural Centre in New Delhi in 2017, followed by ‘Reminiscences’ at the State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad in 2019 which was inaugurated by Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, who by a quirk of fate, opened her solo in the city as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
Ms. Sireesha has also participated in several group art events in Delhi, Jaipur, Jammu, Amritsar and Goa, besides Dubai. Some of her works have found a place of pride in IFFCO Gallery, New Delhi, the International Airport Hyderabad, Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre at Srinagar and a few corporate houses in Hyderabad and New Delhi.