Rural Faces

Ilango's Art Space and Tangerine Present
Rural Faces - An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings

from 15 – 30 April 2011  at Tangerine

Murrays Gate Road, Alwarpet, Chennai -18

Chennai based contemporary artist S Jayaraj takes us on a journey through rural India through this painting exhibition titled – “Rural Faces”. This series of paintings showcases picturesque rural landscapes and shy people, especially women.

Graduated from the Government College of Arts, Chennai in 1985, S Jayaraj specialised in human anatomy. Through his extensive travel across India, he is intimately familiar with the lives of rural people which have left him totally mesmerised. This has always motivated him to capture fleeting expressions and multifarious moods of rural folks, especially women.

S Jayaraj’s artwork is simple but this simplicity is striking. He uses primary and earthen colours which give a sense of reality to his paintings. He often uses charcoal to sketch and his lines are nothing but fine strokes, well-controlled and strong. Colours like red, black and yellow are artist’s favourite and he strongly feels that these colours help his paintings to retain the Indian-ness in them.

S Jayaraj has held several national and international shows and has been the recipient of many national and international awards.