My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.Claude Monet
Actually the word (artist) is very big and sensitive for me. This is what am asking myself always.. If I am a real artist or not. Art for me is creativity.. I always want to add something new to contemporary art, So maybe it is easy to say or to call us artists, but deep inside me I am always asking why am I an artist?.. what am I adding? and where am I going? Belief in myself depends on my surroundings, my senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing and sight. Everything around me inspires me .Integration of all my senses defines my memory and makes me what I am and what I can be. I believe that my perception is vital for my inner development. Perception and creativity go side by side fostered by parallel combination of other senses. I believe that my creativity has roots in the vocabulary imparted by impressions from my senses. This vocabulary develops my thoughts and gives me answers of deep questions going in my conscience.
Presence of negative space is a faith to conceive an idea.
I usually try to understand the underlying causes of diversity in human behaviours. Why we love some particular human behaviour and why we hate other? Does this variable behaviour show presence or absence of our holistic inner make? May be this variation is due to unattended or absent inner components and their absence results in a negative space which has a tendency and urge to get abridged and filled in.
I put a lot of symbols in my works. Everything in my paintings have a symbolic meaning. During the age long process of my thought evolution, characteristics of few elements of nature and the characteristics of my own existence had been finding a close linkage. These elements of nature are mostly moon, dragonfly, frog and water, having a profound understanding of inter-linkage of characteristics of these elements; I found the same linkage within my own personality, which not only helped me to understand myself but also to understand the human behaviours,
in the form of contemporary languages and surfaces regarding miniature paintings in traditional and newly-explored materials in collages.
The best remedy for me, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where I can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then I can feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Moon and rain always attracts and effects my deep inside. How and why, still remains a question. May be the answer lies in my night long staring of sky, sitting on my lawn’s wet grass. Moon has attraction for the water and there lives frog in, quick moves of dragon fly and silent attack of frog, transparent wings of dragon fly and glowing full moon, hibernation process of frog and its reflections in some social phenomena, short but lively life of dragonfly, all these relations and their further elucidation in human behaviours are the subject matters to be expressed on my canvas.
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My colour palette is nature, love, reflections, darkness, glow and depth. It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Zaheer Chaudhary
Lahore, Pakistan.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/zaheer
http://virtual.tart.co.nz/exhibit3/ice108.htm
http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/56013-zaheer-chaudhary
