He has been successful in establishing an Art Gallery at top floor of his house. To showcase his paintings and find customers for his artworks, Arshad has been working on a creative space for himself and for art lovers. He was awarded a certificate and a medal from the team of Guinness book. I was awarded by the then Iranian president Syed Mohammad Khatami,” he recalls.įew years back, the artist participated at event held at Lal Qila for Guinness book of world records. “Twenty six countries were participating in that event and I was representing India. On the International front, Arshad was selected for Tenth International Artists’ Exhibition in Tehran in 2002. “I was awarded National Award by Raskala Manch, Haryana and Masters of Award Honour by Artistry international at Jaipur,” he says. He has been honored by awards by N.N Vohra and S.S.Bhagat who was president of All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi. KO Photo by Syed Mohammad Burhan.įor his creative work, Arshad has been bestowed with the state award three times by the Cultural Academy. But I work on other subjects as well, such as realistic landscape, surrealistic landscape figurative paintings.”Īrshad’s artpiece. “It’s so popular that some people think that this is the only subject I work on. “I’ve been successful in making this model of paintings successful,” he says. Today, Arshad’s calligraphic paintings with verses from the Quran are in display in many European, Gulf and Central Asian countries. The Quranic calligraphy with landscape is something he never wants to give up.
Recalling his first calligraphic painting of circa 1992, he says, it was a Quranic calligraphy, with a verse: “ Wama Arsalnaaka Illa Rehmatal Lil Aalameen.” “I thought of instilling calligraphy in landscape paintings,” Arshad says. “He was a calligrapher of high repute and I realized it was in my genes.”Īfter working on some of his artworks he thought of doing something different and started doing calligraphic works in landscape paintings. “Although I was inspired by that art-piece, Calligraphy passed onto me from my grandfather,” he says. KO Photo by Syed Mohammad Burhan.Īrshad’s date with Calligraphy started after he saw an artwork at New Delhi’s Iranian Embassy in 1992 and drew inspiration from it. “I had a choice to make between commercial art, sculpture, painting or arts,” Arshad says. The college faculty appreciated his work and realized that he had interest and talent to opt for painting as a subject. “During those times our college was headed by valley’s prominent sculptor, late Gayoor Hassan.” Having joined Institute of Music and Fine Arts in 1992, he does not shy away from remembering his tributes to his mentors and teachers. He remembers seeking answers from his teachers from Kashmir and abroad.
When he used to see signboard painters painting in enamel paint, he would get inspired to draw portraits. “Later, I used to draw portraits using oil medium, acrylic medium and canvas paintings before joining the college.” He used to pick up the white boards as it was a good surface to work on. KO Photo by Syed Mohammad Burhan.īack then, cloth merchants of his locality would throw their mound boards after selling the cloth. “The tools only gave wings to my imagination.”Ĭalligraphy in landscape. “There was no dearth of painting material at our house because my father’s Papier Mache art workshop,” he says.
His father did not leave any stone unturned and provided him with everything he needed to pursue his career. I think there were instinctual forces within me which always forced me to paint and draw.”Īs a self-taught artist in the beginning, he would draw landscape, portraits, figurative art, and symbolic landscape. “He had realized that I had the talent to sketch and draw and he gave me freedom as I desired. “My father had high-degree of aesthetic taste and aesthetic sensibility,” he remembers with a glint in his eyes. I tried to sketch on everything possible.”ĭrawing was an expression of his keen observation as well as an expression of his DNA. “I used to sketch on every surface, be it a paper, wall or any other surface.
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“I was only five-year-old when I realized that I can paint or draw,” he recollects in his room full of art. In his early childhood days, Arshad had realized that he had tendency towards drawing objects and paintings.
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