TThe work of Elsbeth Buschmann reflects the experiences and insights of her ongoing inner journey. Her search for truth took her to India, where she lives near Dharamsala in the Himalayan Mountains.
“Nature is innocent . it has no mind and no intellect. We use it like a mirror to reflect our longings for peace and harmony , which are part of the inner reality.”
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New in Sidhbari /Dharamsala

The exhibition in ‘NAAM ART GALLERY’ shows paintings by Elsbeth Buschmann - watercolours and acrylics - and oil paintings by Alfred W. Hallett.

Elsbeth Buschmann, is a professional painter from Germany, having studied painting in London and Paris .She lived in many countries where she held exhibitions, especially in the USA where she received various awards. Her paintings are in private collections in Germany, USA, Scotland, India and Switzerland. In India she held solo exhibitions at AIFAX, New Delhi and TAG, the Art Gallery of the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai. She also took part in ‘The Himalayan National Exhibition of Art’ and was awarded.
A.W.Hallett is a very well renowned painter from England. He studied art in London and participated in two exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Art, London which entitled him to become a Fellow of the Academy. He held various international exhibitions. He lived over 40 years at Dharamsala and became very popular in Himachal Pradesh. Many of his paintings are owned by the government of Himachal Pradesh. A.W. Hallett held a special interest in the culture and scenery of Himachal Pradesh which are the main elements of his work. He passed away in 1986 .
The display of his paintings in ‘NAAM ART GALLERY’ are a tribute to this great painter.

I only want to paint beauty and the goodness of life, which are getting rarer day by day. With me, the concept of 'Satyam, Shivam Sundaram' becomes 'Sundram, Shivam and Satyam' (Beauty, Goodness and Truth) in that order.
            One of Sobha Singh's Greatest Masterpieces - "Guru Nanak" in the "Aashirwad" pose. This was created during late 50's. The hand of Guru Nanak was recreated by a renowned palmist Pundit Agnihotri of Hamirpur after a thorough study of the 'Janam Patri' of Guru Nanak 

Alfred Hallett: born 1914 in England, he exhibited twice at the Royal Academy, London (1937 and 1938) before migrating to British India in 1940 where he managed a cloth mill in Dhariwal, Punjab and from where he was able to buy the property on Dharamkot to pursue his love of painting full-time. Known primarily as a figure painter, his prolific output of portraits, landscapes and imaginative religious and abstract oil paintings can be seen today from Amritsar to New Delhi as well as on walls in Southern England. A confirmed bachelor all his life, he died in his beloved Dharamkot studio in 1986, aged 72

The pursuit of refinement and beauty was sacred for Roerich. He believed that although earthly temples and artifacts may perish, the thought that brings them into existence does not die but is part of an eternal stream of consciousness — man's aspirations nourished by his directed will and by the energy of thought. Finally, he believed that peace on Earth was a prerequisite to planetary survival and the continuing process of spiritual evolution, and he exhorted his fellow man to help achieve that peace by uniting in the common language of Beauty and Knowledge.
     Nicholas Roerich died in Kullu on December 13, 1947. His body was cremated and its ashes buried on a slope facing the mountains he loved and portrayed in many of his nearly seven thousand works.

Sculpture is a mean as well as an objective for my expression. Ranging figurative work to those involving only abstracts such as light and colour.   My sculpture make the most use of locally available materials. Social commentary underlined with self depreciating humour has been one of the main features of my figurative work. Using light as a material, I have endeavored to explore the relationship between object and drawing where mass and space is provide a frame of reference. In all such works I have followed the ancient Indian tradition of the frontal sculpture. 
 

16th to19th century  Pahari drawings, done between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, are comparatively calmer, refined, finely drawn and lyrical. These drawings are among the most graceful and appealing in Indian painting. Work of the artist families of Guler and Chamba, chiefly from the eighteenth century, is remarkable and displays all the best qualifies of Pahari painting, While the style of these two schools is derived from the late Mughal paintings, the mood is not; they are gentle, spontaneous and more lyrical

B.S.Baloria born on 27th Jan. 1953 at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh was facinated and inspired by the Indian heritage, culture and Great Himalayas in multifarious feild of art.His creativity and style of painting depicts the inner appearance with prudent and careful use of colours. His drawings and paintings are widely accepted.
Receipent of many awards, in different medias presents the sensibility of the current panorama of the life arround him.