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Bella Donna, The Pavilion Awaits Painting
Singapore
Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 10.8 W x 14.5 H x 0.1 D in
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About The Artwork
Bella Donna is a force of nature and she moves on her own terms towards a different state of being, across the water, at a pavilion. The pavilion, hidden partly by foliage on the far side, suggests expectation and possible fortune. A pavilion is also a chamber which looks out to the world(and in this case, a river) but it can also be many-chambered. It can conceal great conflict or secrets while showcasing unity, peace, triumph and accomplishment. Set on higher ground, it projects power and possession. Celebrities and dignitiaries are showered with confetti when they pass by a pavilion. That might be so in this case, too. Is Bella Donna a celebrity to receive accolades or will she shower confetti on someone? What secrets does she share in, behind the façade of the pavilion? The mystique lives on in the many-layered built histories of our cities.This watercolour was based at least in part on the buildings and bridges along the Singapore River, a site of tremendous historical churn. I deliberately turned the idea of nightshade on it’s head because what is deadly is not a person. It is context which makes someone act in a particular way. In one way or the other, we are all victims.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:10.8 W x 14.5 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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A naturalised Singaporean, Soma Pradhan comes from a family of agitators and legislators with roots in coastal Bengal. She took a Masters in Botany and initial classes in painting beside the Ganges in places trodden by the likes of Mark Twain and George Mallory. After a decade of work in Delhi in textiles and fashion with a post graduation from NIFT, she moved to Singapore. There, she learnt object design, watercolours and Chinese ink painting at NAFA, bastion of the late, great Georgette Chen. Soma works across paper, silk and silver. Her paintings are available online at the Saatchiart.com and Theartling.com. She has exhibited at NAFA. She has been published in The Rappahannock Review, Anatolios Magazine, 3Elements Review, Paranthesis Journal and the Lumiere Review. Soma is inspired by the works of Tolouse-Lautrec, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O Keefe and other influences such as New Wave cinema, DC Comics and Japanese film. She seeks to constantly challenge and redraw the boundaries of the possible. Soma believes that the innovation in art which began with Impressionism at the peak of the Industrial Age, must continue in the digital, instant social age to keep it relevant. She believes this is possible through bold experimentation in material, interpretation of movement and the use of light.
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