Carousing with Colours!

"Geometry in Colours" formed the theme for the paintings in an exhibition in progress at All India Fine Arts & Craft Society ( AIFACS ), from 1st to 7th July 2009. The artist has experimented purely with resplendent colours and shapes, and has brought out immaculate paintings through various permutations and combinations. An extrusive theme that runs through most of the paintings is conservation of nature, as the painter has subtly depicted the plight that the flora and fauna is facing owing to insensible rapid urbanisation.
The paintings are reflective of the predominantly alleviating, nature friendly and a refreshingly soothing essence embedded in the surroundings. He believes that the psychological state of the generation is sensitive, tenacious and self centered. "The youth today has lost the sensitivity that it once upheld.
However much the technology may aid the developments in diverse visual fields such as graphics, computer design, photography, video-graphy, camcorders or any other visual medium, the traditional use of canvas and paint will never fade or become unpopular with artists. "A painting can be, simply, an exploration of colour and form, an arrangement of paint on canvas, to evoke a feeling, a mood in the mind of the viewer, without seeking to represent them as real-life images" said B. Narayanan, expressing his views on art as an expression. He is an amateur artist, who has been teasing the canvas with myriad hues since the last seven years. He is an officer of the 1990 batch of the Indian Information Service, he is currently posted as Director (IEC) in the Ministry of Rural Development.
He remarks, "I paint to distress and take my mind off the busy schedule that I follow. Painting is the only thing that saves my soul from dying". Indulging in the world of abstraction and its accompanying freedom of interpretations, B. Narayanan claims to be deaf to symbolism . "there is nothing more than what you see in these pictures.I believe in the ideology of less is more" , having said so he has successfully managed to pull off this one with ease.
Like an old proverb goes ‘Good painting is like good cooking, it can be tasted not explained’, B. Narayanan’s nebulous concepts related to the prodigious piece work produced by him gave him contentment.