Known Turf: mothers, flowers

Friday, May 09, 2008

mothers, flowers

Update: A photo of one of her paintings.

This Mother's Day, my mom (Yasmin Zaidi) is paying a Floral Tribute to her own mother who passed away last year. She's having an exhibition of pretty detailed oil paintings - of flowers - in Pune. (Details below) Those who can go see it, please do.

"Mother's Day - A Floral Tribute" begins on Mother's Day, Sunday, 11th May 2008, at the Corinthian's Club, and will go on for a few weeks. Be there for the opening at 11 AM, if you would like to meet the artist.

Yasmin Zaidi has been drawing and painting for nearly forty years now. She has always had a keen eye for colour and composition and an enduring love of nature, which dominates her painting.
However, she has not needed to retreat into the wilderness to transmit this love onto canvas. She has sought, and found, beauty in small gardens in crowded suburbs, bouquets of cut flowers and wild trees fighting against the overbearing concrete in urban spaces. She considers the creation of anything beautiful a "co-creation with the Creator".
The artist comes from a family that has had a close association with various forms of art. Her father Padma Shri Ali Jawad Zaidi was a poet and a scholar; her daughter is a journalist and poet, and her grandfather also painted, though not professionally.
Some of Zaidi's early poems were published by various newspapers and journals and she has painted for and written a children's alphabet book. Her long career in education meant spending at least two decades imparting her painting skills to young and eager students. Post-retirement, she has picked up the brush again and has been painting full time and much of her recent work has been almost exclusively centred around flowers.

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Comments:

Congratulations to her Annie... Wish I could have seen it.

# posted by

the mad momma : 9:09 PM

Congratulations Annie..This is some happy mothers day for your family...

Hope to see you more often here...

Anyways...Not lucky enough to see those paintings as me in delhi...

Take care

# posted by

Sachin : 8:52 AM

This sounds so wonderful. Nice to see you back here:)

# posted by

dipali : 9:42 AM

hello annie,

This entry about your mother paying a floral tribute to her mother is in a sense your tribute to your mother. This post speaks so well of your mother, but why not publilsh a few photographs of her detailed paintings ? Aroused enough curiosity about her work, but your readers come from beyond pune as well ???

# posted by

a open letter : 4:31 PM

Yes please ..post some pics.

# posted by

Swati : 10:46 AM

OMG!!!

So much happening and I am clueless about it!!

Will give her a call right away!!

This is beautiful! I wish I was there to see it. So much of 'mother-ing' happening in Pune, with another expectant mum too there... wow!!

And this is definitely the best gift Dadi could have received, keeping in mind that she too was an art lover and appreciated all forms of art!

Lovely! I am just so happy!! :D

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Beautiful painting! Can you tell us what medium was used?

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