Make art your life: Diana Tomar

Interview of Bhopal based artist, who is working as an artist and teacher. Displaying the life emotions with her art.

Sheetal Atkade Byline Bhopal

A great teacher is a great artist and we have a lady in our city who is a perfect example for this, an artist and a teacher Diana Tomar .Talking with Byline Bhopal she said “Painting to me is a play field. Next to that, it is of course the act of making a painting, and as such it is a way of spending time, actually it stretches time: it makes you enter a different time-space continuum, where it is nice to wander around. It's a magic. In my childhood I was greatly inspired by Pablo Picasso. Then I thought to start my work and started painting at the age of 7 year."

Telling us about her artwork she said, "My work includes so much of line drawing and dots because line gives life and it show the path in right direction. Without lines we can't draw anything. It resembles with folk art like Gond and Madhubani and Varli. I got huge appreciation from people around me, Apart from this my paintings are having splash of color, its my way of defining life, which is full of emotions, very coloury, loving and happening, she added.

Traditional Skills

• Ceramic Pottery making

• Mandana Painting (Malwa)

• Madhubani Painting (Bihar)

• Mukhota Art (Andhra Pradesh)

• Mud work (Kuchh, Gujrat)

• Thanka painting (Sikkim)

• Miniature Painting (Rajasthan)

Resembling the Folk art : My medium is Acrylic. Now I basically work on bonding of a relationship and it's a mixture of contemporary and folk. My topic belongs to family, friends relationship, Bachpan, mother and child . These all are basic titles of my work.

30+ Group exhibitions

Indore, Bhopal, Thailand, Indonesia, kampala, Bengaluru, Nagpur, London, Mumbai, Kolkata, khajuraho, New Delhi and Jaipur.

Give love and respect to our nature for youngsters this is my one of the priority based advice respect our elders always have confidence what you are doing have patience to do any work respect our tradition and culture. -Diana Tomar

• 01 Solo exhibition (Shashwat everlasting)

• 30+ Group exhibitions

• Awarded Silver Medal by ManavSanket, Ujjain in 2003

Group Exhibition:

1. “Ananda-4” an exhibition organized by “Art 20 20 GROUP OF CONTEMPORY ARTIST” Of Bhopal at Pritamlal Dua Gallery, Indore 17th to 19th april ’2019.

2. “Turning point-2” Art exhibition organized by “Child Rights Observatory, ArtDesign Teachers’ Forum & Ankur Kala Kendra” at Swaraj Bhavan, Bhopal 7th & 8th Jan’2019.

3. “Plumeria Waves Art Exhibition” organized by Worldwide Art Movement at Banbat Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand on 27th to 30th january’2019.

4. “All India Art Exhibition 2018” at Himachal state Museum, Shimla 30th December 2018.

5. “Blossom Waves Art Exhibition “organized by Worldwide Art Movement at Yagyakarta Art Space,Jakarta, Indonesia from 1st to 4th December’2018.

6. “ARCTOTIC WAVES Art Exhibition” organized by” Worldwide Art Movement” at Nommo Art Gallery, Kampala, UGANDA from 29th October to 1st Nov’2018.

7. “ANANT ROOPA” group painting exhibition at Chitrakala Parisath, Bengaluru on 12th to 17th Jan’18.

8. “M.P. ART EXHIBITION” organized by “Bharti Art Gallery” at Swaraj Bhawan, Bhopal (MP) on 30th Dec’17.

9. “8th lalitya National Art Camp 2017”organized by “LALITYA FOUNDATION & GENESYS FOUNDATION” at Nagpur on 6th Oct. ‘2017.

10. “EXPRESSION OF ART” 3 day painting exhibition organized by ICG gallery, Jaipur on 18 th April’2017.

11. “SPIRITUAL INDIA” International Art Exhibition organized by “CITY ART FACTORY” at TNC, London, UK on 3rd april’2017.

12. “Amalgamation 2” an exhibition organized by “EXPOPEDIA GROUP” at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai on 23rd march’2017.

13. “Ananda-3” an exhibition organized by “Art 20 20 GROUP OF CONTEMPORY ARTIST” Of Bhopal on International Woman’s day 16th march’2017.

14. “TURNING POINT” an exhibition by teachers of Madhya Pradesh focusing child rights 19 Nov’2016.

15. Participated in “Sale oriented artist- buyer meet” at the “Hotel Hindustan International”- Kolkota organized by “City Art factory” July 2016

16. “Canarys National Art foundation” organized a group show only for women in Indore (M.P.) July 2016

17. “Art 20 20 GROUP OF CONTEMPORY ARTIST” OF BHOPAL organized a group exhibition Ananda-2 on 8th March on International Woman’s day 2016.

18. Participated in exhibition in ‘Khajuraho festival’ organized by MP GOVT. Khajuraho in Feb 2016.

19. “Art 2020 GROUP OF CONTEMPORY ARTIST” OF BHOPAL organized a group exhibition “Chitroopa” at Bharat Bhawan, BHOPAL, in January 2016.

20. “Art 2020 GROUP OF CONTEMPORY ARTIST” OF BHOPAL organized a group exhibition dedicated to “kalam’s vision 2020” at Lalit Kala Akademy, NEW DELHI, in September 2015.

21. “AGNIPATH” organized a group show at Artizen Art Gallery, NEW DELHI, in May 2015.

22. “Art 20 20 GROUP OF CONTEMPORY ARTIST” OF BHOPAL organized a group exhibition on 8th March on Woman’s day 2015.

23. “DISCIPLE”group had organized a painting exhibition at Swaraj Bhawan, Bhopal in 2014.

24. Hamidia Collage organized a group Exhibition Bhopal in 2014.

25. Group exhibition at Jawahar Kala Kendra Jaipur in 2013.

26. Art and Artist of Indian exhibition paintings by veteran and senior artist.

27. “Raza Awards” at Kala Parisar in Bhopal in 2005

28. “AzadiKe Rang” at SwarajBhawan, Bhopal in 2003

29. “Raja Ravi Verma art gallery, Bhopal in 2002

30. “Rang-Ninad” at Nutan College, Bhopal in 2000

(Sheetal is a Journalist Mobilographer & the owner of Byline Bhopal)

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