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Floating colours on canvas

Painting exhibition by Maksuda Iqbal Nipa

Takir Hossain
Vivid colours, malleable brush-strokes, and imagery are noticeable features in the impressive paintings of Maksuda Iqbal Nipa, a talented painter who has been striving to make a distinct place for herself in Dhaka's local art scene.
Her solo painting exhibition titled “Texture and Colour in Mindscape” is now on at Bengal Art Lounge in Gulshan-1.
An introspective and imaginative painter, Nipa has taken her colours from nature and that is why colour is the most significant aspect in her works. She likes to experiment with colour in all its various facets. She applies colour directly, piling up thick layers on the canvas. She has concentrated on applying colours. Deep layers of colours provide a unique texture to her canvas and that is why her canvas carries a singular hallmark. Her paintings create an expression on the essence of a colour and what the colours really means. Over the years, Nipa has developed this technique, which is very expensive and time con-
suming, requiring immense effort and devotion.
Nipa's purpose has been to capture the beauty of nature in evanescent moments. She has used nature's colour as her principal source for motifs and forms. Her search for beauty and for contemplation on nature has influenced her to hold up in her paintings a vibrant blithe picture of nature. The delicacy of her lines (very tiny and scribbles) and colours are derived from the natural world and have evolved from a more traditional style to abstractions that intensify panoramic views and imagination. Nipa's canvases are lavish in abstract images of colour. But this abstraction does not
in any way obstruct the viewers' perception of the artist's feeling. Most of her canvases are large and it is noticeable that she has piled colour on colour with the use of hard brush, spatula, soft brush and knife, some of her preferred tools and ingredients. These exercises project her expression of feelings and moods. The poetic sound of nature and its divine stream produce a surge of sensitivity in her, enabling her to hear and interpret the sounds of nature, its colours, rhythm and poetry.
Nipa works with bright colours -azure, yellow, emerald green, mauve and crimson. It is clear that her observation on the colours proffered by nature is a very exciting feature in her works where there are colours present in all kinds of mind-puzzling forms.
Nipa’s images abound in her use of deep droplets and various sprinkled forms, marked by the strong backdrop of colourful images that cannot be explained and have to be felt. For every single line, dot, sprinkle and profound colour on Nipa’s canvas exude different moods and feelings.
The exhibition ends on March 1.