Bhubaneswar, Nov. 12: Artist Jagannath Panda's creations have travelled all the way to London where a solo exhibition has been held at Halcyon Gallery.

His collection, which includes both paintings and sculptures, has aptly captured the changes in the life influenced by urbanisation in his work titled "The Trance Narratives".

As is his signature style, here too, he has portrayed traditions against a backdrop that represents slow urbanisation. He always uses one element to show unchangeable tradition.

In one painting, he has created an owl as a witness to the environmental changes with apartments and highrises shown in the backdrop. In another, he has shown two worlds coming together and the entire artwork in mixed media is wrapped with snakes.

The presence of animal figures is also strong in Panda's latest work with sculptures of life-size deer and rhinoceros set up in the gallery. The rhino's foot on a suitcase appears to display his resistance to people entering his habitat.

In one of his paintings called 'Angel of Niyamgiri', he has shown a mother holding a baby on her shoulders based on a dhokra work by Niyamgiri craftsmen where iron extraction led to controversies. The use of iron by the locals has been highlighted in this painting comparing it with iron for industrialisation.

"The works are based on my personal experiences in Delhi and visits to Niyamgiri. The adjustments people and animals make like growing plants in balconies to make the best use of space by people living in apartments or birds perching on poles or balconies inspire my work," said Panda who studied at the BK College of Art and Craft in Bhubaneswar and then in the Royal College of Art, London.

He has held his solo exhibitions before in San Francisco (2012), New Delhi (2011), Mumbai (2007), Tokyo (1998) and also in London (2006).

Jagannath won the Lalit Kala Akademi award in1990, and the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society Award, New Delhi in 1996 and Centre Prize, C.I.I.C, London in 2002.