THRISSUR: The paintings of artist Gireeshan Bhattathiripad has evolved over the years. The artist who paints mostly abstract art using a painting knife instead of a brush has an obsession for the lavish use of acrylic colours to create textures on canvas. Mr Bhattathiripad has put on a solo exhibition at the Lalitha Kala Akademi Gallery displaying 120 works, arguably the largest number of paintings by a single artist in the state.
The show which was inaugurated by artist Namboodiri on Sunday is witnessing an unprecedented rush of art lovers from across the state. The theme is about nature and its various colours, and the paintings have been arranged with the colours changing from various shades of green to yellow and orange shades.
“The picture of the plantain farm first appeared with only the broken leaves having different shades and greenery. And later, I came up with human figures of a child and his mother to connect emotions of humans with nature. The grey and black colour I have used in the works which comes after those in green, yellow and orange indicates mass destruction of nature,” says the artist who hails from Punnayoorkulam here. “Gireesan keeps a kind of spirituality of colours which is lyrical as well as aggressive,” art historian, Vijayakumar Menon, who visited the show that ends on Friday, said. His previous shows were conducted at the Durbar Hall in Kochi in 2013.
