Blow Horn: signs and life in India - a solo exhibition of oils & original prints by Natasha Kumar

Blow Horn: signs and life in India - a solo exhibition of oils & original prints by Natasha Kumar

BLOW HORN: signs and life in India. A solo exhibition of new work by Natasha Kumar to include 60 oils and original prints inspired by the Indian love of advertising and bold colour. A percentage of sales on the private view will be donated to Healing Kashmir. At Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP March 4th - 17th 2010 Natasha will also be running a print workshop with Artichoke Printing on Saturday 6th March – 10:30am – 4:40pm again at Asia House. This free workshop will run hourly at Asia House between 10:30 and 4:40 NATASHA KUMAR IS AN ESTABLISHED ANGLO-INDIAN ARTIST, from long line of noted English artists. In this solo show of 60 oils and original prints, her award-winning talent for figurative art merges with her love of signs and life in India in a truly original departure. In ‘Blow Horn’ the bold colours of Indian advertising art in its various forms cut through the picturesque, giving a sharp contemporary twist to traditional Indian motifs.

‘BLOW HORN’ IS THE IMPERIOUS ADVICE to drivers painted on the back-end of Indian Lorries, buses and rickshaws. A warning and encouragement, its one illustration of a mindset that considers every flat surface a potential canvas. In India If it stays still long enough to be painted, it will be, with a graffiti of spiritual texts, underwear ads, personal and folk expression. ART AND INDIA ARE IN NATASHA KUMAR’S GENES. On her English side she comes from a line of established artists. Her Indian heritage she traces back to a noble Kashmiri family via tales of partition and lost family gold. WITH A STRING OF SUCCESSFUL SHOWS, she has made her own name as an artist from the age of 17, when, earning a place by right in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she found her work hanging on the same wall as her grandfather, and uncle's work.

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04 Mar 2010 - 17 Mar 2010

All day

Natasha Kumar

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