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rooma mehra
EXCERPTS FROM ART REVIEWS
AND WRITE-UPS BY ART CRITICS
Things that fade, that cannot easily be caught and pinned down are Mehra’s concern, as of any devoted artist who knows that to seek is all.
Keshav Malik in The Times of India
There must be something common between painting, sculpture, poetry and music, so many painters write poetry, so many poets can also play some musical instrument or the other or sing.
One of them is Rooma Mehra.
- Khushwant Singh in his MALICE column on Rooma Mehra in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES.
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Rooma’s works reveal the products of a mind which in its ultimate imaginative reach is capable of finding itself wherever it looks even though it marks within, its own divisive strengths.
There is a sense of visual victory, as one perceives these works.
Rooma’s is a fertile mind rich in the aspects of intricately and exquisitely enriched cognitive details. Rooma’s works invite an inexorable condition in which the intricacies are not to be revealed in the experience of the condition. It’s quality is felt in the richness of the ambient which engages the imagination with a wide range of tactile visual incident.
Rooma’s paintings evoke a splendor that must have existed below the thin white sheen of the canvas she touched. In the stillness of all else around you listen to these paintings – as they weave their way through the crest of melody. For Rooma perhaps it is the inevitable that colour should be used with a fervent relish.
In her deliberation to personalize or depersonalize she has also set a stage for a creative art.
-"ROOMA’S RESONANCE’ BY UMA NAIR
Rooma's Art is revolutionising in the sense that it emphasizes more on the happening. She touches the very core of personalities through her tantalizing and balanced shades.
- "A HAPPY BLEND OF WATERCOLOURS" by Vijay Bhushan
Rooma Mehra is a young artist who combines in her person both poetry and painting. It is a rare combination, but a strong one. What is significant is that she makes effective statements both literally as well as visually.
Rooma’s works with a sure hand and a lot of thinking goes into her work. That is why she knows what she is doing and what exactly she wants from the medium. It will be interesting to watch her next stage in both painting and in poetry. For she is a progressive artist and poet.
-"WITH A SURE HAND" BY R.S. YADAV
Within the tradition of a synthesis of art forms and artists is an increasingly popular artist, Rooma Mehra. A self-taught painter and a poetess of repute, her watercolours are currently on display.
Rooma has chosen to work within the paradigm of the universal shunning the obvious "Indian" imagery.
- "NOT OF IMAGERY ALONE’ by Seema Bawa in THE PIONEER
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Her strength lies in her sensitive faces as well as in her use of colours. Mehra has made skillful use of the medium of watercolours, exploiting both its dreamy, vapour-like quality as well as its rich colours and hues.
-"SERENE DREAMSCAPES’ by Bharati Chaturvedi in the INDIAN EXPRESS
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Rooma’s works exude secretiveness and a magical charm. You must believe in magic, if you want to prod this unknown terrain.
-‘ROOMA MEHRA’S ART: ‘PRODDING AN UNKNOWN TERRAIN’by Narendra Dixit (the then Director of the LALIT KALA AKADEMI’S ARTIST’S STUDIOS) IN Sunday Reading of "The Tribune"
Among the sculptors, Rooma Mehra holds an important place with her mural-like pieces. She interweaves imagery with a philosophical bent to life. In the modern context, her art is highly evocative and innovative. And the general effect is that of relief sculpture.
-"PROGRESSIVE TRENDS’ by V. SHAW reviewing the 62nd Annual All India Art Exhibition organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society.
Rooma belongs to the new generation and as her duty demand, she has a record to show a total involvement with her subject. She is an artist who finds her platform step by step. Her growth in the field has been evident for a strong work base
- "GLIMPSE OF PRESENT-DAY OBJETS D’ART’ from the Art Review of
THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART
The familiar idiom of brush and colour, used to express familiar emotions, but the style in which Rooma Mehra expresses them truly distinguishes them.
- RATNOTTAMA SENGUPTA in THE TIMES OF INDIA
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If the viewer goes through the paintings of Rooma Mehra, he will find a tragic sense of life deeply etched in the background of every painting. Looking at her paintings, no one would doubt the reality of the disquiet in her soul.
-"PAINTER’S DISQUIET IN SOUL’ in THE INDIAN EXPRESS
After seeing her paintings, the predominant feeling that one has is that she is in search of an incomprehensible and invisible truth – a longing for which is reflected in all her paintings.
"ROOMA MEHRA’S WORLD OF ART’ IN NAVBHARAT TIMES
As a poetess and composer of many published pieces, Rooma views painting as having strong affinity with poetry. One expresses in the unsaid manner and the other in the said word.
"FULFILLING A NEED’ in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES
Rooma Mehra’s multi-faceted personality cast a woman in bronze entitled "Prayer" to remind the sacrifices made by the martyrs.
Conglomeration of forms, and rough textures are found so often in the art of Rooma.
-IN TRIBUTE TO MARTYRS’ by VIJAY BHUSHANCommenting on an exhibition organized by GARHI ARTISTS COMMUNITY FOR KARGIL MARTYRS at Lalit Kala Akademi
A very intense but muted angst permeates the Shridharani Gallery - a feeling of trauma and suffering runs through Mehra's work.
"COMMENDABLE" by the Art Critic, THE HINDU
Rooma Mehra's has been an aware and active participation in Contemporary Art for the past few years.
-"THE COMPLETENESS OF THE WOMAN" in Dainik Jaagran
"Strokes of Muse and Colour"
in The Sunday Tribune
Rooma Mehra
Born:24.1.1967
Rooma Mehra has had 11 solo shows of her paintings, reliefs and sculptures. Her artworks are found in private & permanent collections including in NGMA, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, Arte Antica Gallery, Canada and individual collections in Switzerland, U.S.A. Denmark, Austria, Spain and Japan. She is also a poetess of repute.
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DESCRIPTION OF ART;
PAINTINGS in Watercolours, Oil, Oil Pastels, Mixed Media, RELIEFS using seashells, waste crystal, cement, etc., SCULPTURES in Bronze, Fibre Glass, Mixed Media and Scrap. THEMES: Music, Peace, Fantasy, War, Prayer, Love story, etc.
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