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Seema Ghurayya`s paintings seem almost as if a sort of quietness and solitude has sheathed them, making each one seem to carry a deep and personal meaning. At first glance, don`t seem very striking or dramatic. These very contemporary works are an expression of the feelings that the artist has experienced rather than an effort to establish a connection and communication with the viewers. Ghurayya has refrained from using any recognizable forms,... Seema Ghurayya`s paintings seem almost as if a sort of quietness and solitude has sheathed them, making each one seem to carry a deep and personal meaning. At first glance, don`t seem very striking or dramatic. These very contemporary works are an expression of the feelings that the artist has experienced rather than an effort to establish a connection and communication with the viewers. Ghurayya has refrained from using any recognizable forms, and never links or refers to anything that has a natural appearance in her canvases. She has given up ostentation and lavishness, instead choosing light airy colours and very sparing strokes.

Ghurayya uses color palatte that absorbs and compliment the geometrical lines and figures she etches onto the canvases. For subjects she chooses abstract and inexpressible things, like silence, lightness and freshness. Things that have no communicable form or structure, making her work also representative of an effort to give something intangible its first taste of expression through her visual vocabulary. In her serene and cool pieces, she gives form to the formless, and expression to things that could never have had any before. Some consider her paintings to be a vague new-fangled experiment in abstract, the late modernist; J. Swaminathan had nothing but praise for them. "Her abstractions resound with the rhythm of a musical scale…there is something precious and chaste in her work…"

Born in Gwalior, 38 year old Ghurayya`s untitled oils on canvas seem to be a opening up of radiance, made clearer by the pastel hues and simple and harmonious lines. A winner of several Indian awards, Seema has to her credit a number of solo and collective exhibitions and participations. She lives and works in Bhopal.

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