Showcasing nature with abstract colours and imagination

Stacy is the daughter of Agnes and (late) Saby and is the
youngest of three siblings and with the help of her mother; she can overcome
the challenge of imagining the colours of nature. Stacy uses her left eye for
painting and mixing colours and has worked on seven coloured paintings for this
exhibition while most of her works will consists of charcoal paintings.

“I want people to see the growth in my paintings. I have been
painting for the past five years and I can feel the difference in my works. We
need to be more responsible towards nature which is very important. We need to
progress but not by destroying nature because that is not going to benefit us
in any way. The next generation is not going to see anything better and they
won’t have a healthy life. I will be singing a song that I have composed for
the exhibition titled, ‘Let’s Take a Call’. The greenery around us is getting
messed up,” says Stacy.

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Stacy relates more towards charcoal paintings which is black and
white because her world is black and white. “I am happy with the response I
received for my last exhibition as people saw the detailing and the efforts I
had put in. There is more demand for charcoal painting compared to coloured
paintings. Even while using colour, I try balancing between black and white or
dark and light. Charcoal is all the more challenging but I can recognise bright
colours. If I work on a particular theme, I ask my mother what would the
colours be and based on that I imagine and ask her to give me the tubes of
colour,” she says.

Clarice Vaz from Saligao has made a name for herself in the
world of art. She introduced the unique style of painting using syringes
instead of the conventional tools for paintings. She recently concluded her
last solo exhibition, ‘Sadhana’ – an exhibition of spiritual artworks which
received an overwhelming response. However, she calls this exhibition as one of
the last exhibitions she will be showcasing. “I have been painting continuously
for the last 2-3 years and each painting takes a lot of time. For ‘Sadhana’, I
had a painting of Jesus on the cross which took me a year to complete. I am
glad to be recognised as an artist and I am hooked on to painting but now I
will work on smaller paintings,” says Clarice, as she finds comfort in the
studio at home.

The coloured paintings that Clarice will be showcasing at this
exhibition are works which were painted in 2014. “I had done many landscape
paintings with texture. One of the biggest paintings is a 4 feet by 3 feet
painting titled, ‘The Source’, which I had done for my home. It will be put up
for the exhibition as the proceeds will be going to National Association for
the Blind. Talent is a free gift and sharing makes me happy. I will be putting
up 8-10 huge paintings depending on the area,” says Clarice. She recently
compiled a book on Marius Fernandes called the ‘Goemcho Festamkar’ and her next
project with Bina Nayak is ‘Goan Stories’ with Rene Baretto on World Goa Day.

Speaking
about her collaboration with Clarice, Stacy says, “We met on my first
exhibition in 2016 and she said, why don’t we get together for an exhibition.
One common thing between both of us is nature. For us, our core inspiration is
nature. It was fun and we have to have an understanding. It was never meeting
but only calls, messages and voice messages. I last met her at her ‘Sadhana’
exhibition opening. We balanced the responsibilities out with I doing most of
the footwork and she handled the online social media promotion. The online part
is not my forte because of my vision.”