Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 9: By making her name in the field, a young Kashmiri artist wants to help other lesser-known artists in Kashmir by establishing an art display gallery soon.
Shafiya Shafi, a young artist from Srinagar’s Lal Bazar in an interview to Excelsior said that she knows a lot of artists in Kashmir who have been able to get the deserving recognition even though they are doing amazing.
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For Shafiya, art is a way of venting out feelings and thoughts. She said that though, she has not been able to speak out, she has made a woman a central figure in her work and through her, she expresses herself and portrays what is happening around in the society.
“I was associated with the art since childhood; then it subsided due to studies; I express feelings with the help of paintings-it was the main reason that I am inclined towards the art,” she said.
She added that she portrays her life and the life of a woman through her painting. “My paintings tell a story that I could not tell,” she said.
Shafiya did her schooling from Green Valley and Kothi Bagh, then she went to Govt College for Women, MA Road and later reached Kashmir University to pursue her Post Graduation in Psychology.
Though she said that the woman is the theme of her work, she has lately started painting local utensils made of mud-the art which is staring at a bleak future ahead-to add to the USP of these forgotten utensils in Kashmir
“I have started painting these utensils lately after I came across people who are associated with the business of making these mud made utensils. People are not buying these utensils, it clicked me and I thought why not to present it more beautifully so that its market increases,” she said.
Shafiya wants to take the art that she is pursuing to next level. “I want to take it ahead, want to promote the Kashmiri art,” she said.
She believes that the locals have to come forward to support the local art and that, she believes, is the only option of making the local art gain some more ground.
“We have to come forward to support local art. I want to create an art gallery which will house the work of all the self-taught artists. I know many who are doing amazing, but they are not recognized, I want to help them,” she said.
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