A solo painting exhibition titled ‘Joy of Nature’ by artist Laila Anjuman Ara began on Friday at Alliance Française de Dhaka.

Abdus Satter, a professor at the Oriental Art department in University of Dhaka (DU) inaugurated the exhibition as the chief guest while poet Asad Chowdhury, and ActionAid country director Farah Kabir were present as special guests.  Alliance Française de Dhaka director Bruno Plasse presided over the opening ceremony.

Laila Anjuman Ara is very happy to be alive! The nature, its limitless beauties and everything alive and abstract mesmerize her. Her palette opens up to quench these reverberating stimuli and for every stroke she applies, she becomes entwined with nature's own motions. Although this journey is full of exhilaration and vivacity, she does not stop looking for a peace that defines the dharma of nature herself.

She remembers that by elucidating nature and its liberality in bestowing gifts on her canvas, she is – in her own way – trying to save and protect what is left and unextinct. She feels as if within all its intricacies and indefinable involution, nature is enjoying and reveling in her elements. Therefore if she flicks through closely she cannot but transpose some of the joys, the raptures within herself, and later emanate them in her paintings. 

So she says, ‘nature is the subject of my paintings.’

Artist Laila Anjuman Ara did her L.M.F from the Department of Oriental Art, in DU. She already attended more than twenty five group exhibitions in home and abroad.

The exhibition will run until 9 March in La Galerie from Monday to Thursday (3:00pm to 9:00pm), Friday and Saturday (9:00am to12:00noon and 5:00pm to 8:00pm), except for Sundays.