‘Mountains Landscape and Culture’ takes off

Islamabad: As many as 30 oil-on-canvas paintings, one each by a young female artist from the twin-cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad, put on display in an exhibition exclusively reflecting the reflecting the grandeur, beauty, biodiversity and indigenous cultural heritage of the high altitude mountains of Pakistan.

The exhibition titled ‘Mountain Landscape and Culture’ is organised by the Development Communications Network (Devcom-Pakistan), Safa Gold Mall and Pakistan in the World at the main atrium of a Safa Gold mall. The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland Mr. Piotr Opalinski and the Ambassador of Tunisia Mr. Adel Elarbi, and a senior diplomat from the embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan Samir Guliyev were the guests of honour on the occasion. They jointly inaugurated the exhibition on Friday evening that will remain open from 10 am to 10 pm daily till Sunday February 18.

Moderately priced, all paintings are marvellous work of creative expression on a canvas size 24x18 inches. Most of the paintings are in the landscape form while some are in the portrait. The young artists have explored their creative flair to enrich the paintings with valued aesthetical addition to already enchanting frames of natural beauty of mystical charms.

The flow of colours makes a rhythm of spontaneous movement in actually the static images of the mountains and environment around. The indigenous people and local culture and heritage are also well depicted in the paintings.