“I was born and brought up in Chennai and I have visited all the places that I drew on the canvas so it wasn’t that difficult for me to depict them,” she says. Showcasing her love for the city, the aesthetic curator depicted various famous landmarks including Egmore Museum, LIC building, Kapaleeshwarar Temple, Triumph of Labour Statue, and Valluvar Kottam. “The members who had helped in making the canvases took about 12-14 hours a day despite the weather conditions,” she says. They fell in love with my use of colour combinations,” she shares. I got a good response and many people appreciated my work and started to order my paintings. ![]() The audience at the exhibition was in awe and gave memorable responses to the artist as well. ![]() “This project (which took two months to complete) wouldn’t have been possible without my fellow artist team members - Premraj, Vishwanathan, Vijayshri, and Sarala. The canvases were on an order basis with the request from Pacifica Tech Park, so it is still available on display at the company. The second painting is about the contemporary state of Tamil Nadu and its historical origins in terms of cultures, festivals, and traditions of various dances, literary stalwarts like Bharathiar, and Thiruvalluvar, Tanjore painting, superstar Rajinikanth, intrinsic to Tamil Nadu’s culture.Īfter talks with the CEO of Pacifica Tech Park, Swathi’s project was displayed from December 2022 to January 2023. The first painting is a crucible of the cultures of Madras and Chennai. Swathi chose two murals - one 7x24 feet and another 7x20 feet - to convey the evolution of modern Chennai in a storylike form. I chose the theme of connecting the roots of traditional and cultural values of Madras to modern-day Chennai,” she says. ![]() “I got this project through some people from Ahmedabad who appreciated my previous artworks and got in touch asking me to do a canvas depicting traditional and cultural themes.
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