25 Year anniversary www.bahrainthismonth.com September 2022 31 Subho Sarkar (@suvosart) – The Entangling Designs (March 2011) After completing more than 40 years of service in various sectors in Bahrain, Subho turned to arts and crafts completely. After practicing for hundreds of hours over the last five years, taking part in numerous art exhibitions and creating more than 300 original artworks in varied mediums, he is pursuing a second career as a freelance artist. His major inspirations are from nature and people surrounding us, since each frame has a different story to tell. “I try to find a rhythm in day-to-day modern chaos and enjoy creating abstract art with different levels of attention to colour, precision, gesture and recognisable or unrecognisable forms,” says Subho. He cites his daughter, Soumi Sarkar, as the artist he admires the most, followed by the Nobel Laurette, Rabindranath Tagore, under whose institution he undertook his initial years of schooling at. With the festive season right around the corner in India, he is currently working on creating black and white based paintings of the celebrations. Safia Dawani Extinct in the Wild (June 2011) Safia has a Peruvian/Bahraini background and started painting in high school. Her main inspiration comes from animals in the wild. She states that her selection for her NFT submission was due to the fact that the Arabian Oryx went extinct in the wild in 1972. However, conservation efforts rescued the Arabian Oryx from complete extinction by establishing successful breeding and reintroduction programmes. “I have found that certain animals, such as the Oryx, are representative of this region. Therefore, it is imperative to highlight the necessity to preserve these species so that generations may also look to them as figures of our area. In painting these animals, I, in my way, have highlighted their importance to Bahrain and perhaps general awareness of what is at stake. In choosing the black background, I demonstrated the potential death of a species. Still, with the lightness of the figures, I illustrated the hope for a possible future for our beloved Oryx,” she explains. Safia admires forms of art rather than particular artists. Tanvi Manikoth (@petrichordew) – Art in Motion (November 2016) Tanvi is currently working on a couple of personal projects and trying to expand her repertoire in a variety of art mediums. She is in the process of creating an online presence in the art community whilst being a second year BA Art & Design student at the University of Leeds, UK. Her hobbies include reading fiction and non-fiction, comics like manga and manhua, tennis, dancing, singing and playing her guitar. “I have been painting and sketching for as long as she can remember, which led to her pursing her passion and taking up a professional degree in Art and Design,” says Tanvi. She draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including but not limited to media such as Rajasthani miniature painting, calligraphy and cartoons by artists like Mario Miranda and R.K Laxman, the work of surrealist painters like Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dali and creations by Michelangelo and Da Vinci that are known for their storytelling and vivid imagery.
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