Students at the painting exhibition at College of Arts and Crafts in Patna on Thursday. Picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey

Patna, March 31: Various evaluations of an artist came to the fore at the painting camp at the College of Arts and Crafts. Eighteen artists had put up 29 of their paintings at the Sambhavna-3 painting camp.

The paintings of Milan Das translated the various moods of nature in his 16 blocks. “I take up the subject of nature because I feel I can connect to it. In one block the painting depicts the innocence of a child and the grey portion indicates the phase where he goes through a chase of cultural degradation as the modern thoughts enter its mind,” he said.

Abha Sinha’s painting evokes spiritualism, where she shows three lady figures lost in invocation. Sinha said: “My work is dedicated to the Indian women and Indian rituals and how they are interconnected.”

Shyam Sharma’s canvas bears a testimony to the changing times. “I have tried to show how a culture keeps on mounting. With the ladder of knowledge, you can also find the dominance of Mithila art work here along with the shlokas from old granthas,” he said.

Various decorations in art could be seen in the work of Amrit Prakash, where he portrayed the ornamental form of religion in India with a structure of goddess attached to his painting, surrounded by a variety of sacred objects.

Dharmendra Kumar portrayed the image of a gloomy-eyed child, selling mineral water at a railway station. “This is the portrayal of a boy who is a child labour, someone you come across everyday.”

The organiser of the camp, Sanjay Kumar, a Mumbai-based artist, told The Telegraph: “The response of the exhibition was very good. It is encouraging to see people coming to such occasions. I would like to organise such exhibition seven in future.”