As we travel through history we see various types of pottery around the world. In fact pottery reflects the traditions and civilisation of the particular area it belongs. The styles and colours vary from place to place indicating the different aesthetic sense of the native people. Thus pottery is regarded as a beautiful art, which humans are creating from early ages.
And as the centuries goes by the art of pottery becomes much more advance and attractive. Aliya Faizi is one of the few artists who have great fondness for pottery and hence portrays these beautiful vessels in her paintings. Although pottery is created by using a wheel and clay by a potter, Aliya uses her paints and brush to create lovely pottery designs on the canvas. Aliya's love for pottery begins along with her art career when she displayed her works at a solo show first time in 1999. Her colourful clay pots attracted viewers with red, blue, yellow and a pinch of greens trying to show human civilisation travels through time in the form of clay pottery.
Her recent work at Shakeel Ismail art gallery is a blend of pottery and contemporary figurative art. She did the pottery work on canvas in a unique style like a painting, however, such work is done on clay pots and ceramics. She explains that it is all a matter of strokes and texture. About 26 of her paintings were on display including abstract figurative work.
The paintings convey a message of love with nature - clay with which all humanity rises. It is the basic attraction for her and she simply yet impressively created images using brilliant colours to enhance the importance of this natural resource, which we use and see in our daily lives and do not bother to feel its importance.
Aliya being sensitive, do feel deeply the role of clay - a basic unit of life, which many don't seem to understand. Carefully dealing with the subject her paintings depicts simplicity even in all forms of work. Some of her paintings with powerful strokes reveal cubism style.
Her figurative and non-representational abstract work emerged along with basic forms of square, circles and triangles showing versatility of handling subject, paints and composition. Her women figures have no faces hence no expressions can be observed giving an impression of women's life full of sacrifices yet they are considered having no feelings and emotions.
The line work is balanced with the splashes of colours, the vessels of clay with woman figure shows association of human and clay. Her paintings also depicts the women's nature like vessels, which holds different things in them and remains indifferent for as long as they are not broken into pieces that is the end of life - women's life.
Her canvases are small trying to capture a lot in a tiny space. Using acrylic on canvas as a medium expression she creates variations of form in bright colours. Pottery is both object and subject for her and pots and vessels seem to engulf her canvases. She obtained a diploma in Fine Arts from Mashkoor Art School in 1998. She has experimented a lot in pottery that's why each one of her paintings is different from the other. I think now is the time for her to rediscover her artistic vocabulary and move beyond the complexities of human origin - the clay and pottery. She must explore new creative vistas for her expressions. [email protected]
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