A renowned poetess and painter Teji Grover will put up an exhibition of paintings Maitri at Rangdarshini Gallery, Bharat Bhavan. The exhibition would begin on November 19 and would be on view till November 24.
Notably, this show at Bharat Bhavan ‘Maitri’ is her seventh and her fourth in India. She had solo shows in Jaipur, Delhi and Bangalore prior to this one. She has also shown her work during her participation in International Poetry Festivals at Visby in Sweden and at Trondheim and Ulvik in Norway.
Most of this work being shown at Bharat Bhavan was accomplished during her 10 year long stay in the banks of the Narmada in the township of Hoshangabad and the artist regards these paintings as a boon bestowed on her by the river. Using homemade natural colors from spices, barks, leaves and flowers, and using pure pigments with homemade gum, the poet-painter was transformed by the river into an earth friendly artist. Her proximity to a great water-body was a profoundly moving experience for her.
The show at Bharat Bhavan is named after her most recent collection of poetry, Maitri, a book that was received by the younger generation of Hindi poets with great enthusiasm.
Teji Grover is one of the distinguished Hindi poetesses of the country. Teji Grover born in 1955 is a Hindi poet, painter, translator and environmental activist. She has published five collections of poetry, one novel and a collection of short stories. She has received the Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award in year1989 and the Raza Award for Poetry in the year 2003.
Teji Grover says, “As a poet who always had very close friends among painters, it’s perhaps worthwhile for me to dwell on my irrepressible lifelong desire to be able to paint.” As she is a great poetess, she knows very well to thread the imagery in strings of fine words. She has also done the paintings with the same passion and curiosity.
The art lovers of the city would be able to have a close look at the colours through the eyes of the poet that would be a mass treat for them.