PAINTER
Faiyyaz Rashid Khan
"The attraction of the male and female figures towards the horse in my paintings, symbolizes the eternal relationship between humans and animals."
I was brought up in a joint family at Lonavala. My childhood was so full of adventure and joy that the memories have never left me. Lonavala is a landscape of hills, forest and waterbodies, of old houses and bungalows, large shady trees and narrow lanes; at short intervals, the sound of fast moving trains. The environment I inhabited was so mysterious that I was always in a kind of reverie. When I found myself alone, the characters from the stories my mother told me would suddenly come alive and I would slip into a world where man and bird and animal took on hybrid forms and would speak and play with me. Today, when I start painting on an empty canvas, all those creatures of my childhood fantasies flow out of my pen or brush, taking shape, mingling together, to recreate the world that inhabits within me. Shadows are interwoven with the figures, animal, human and fantastic other forms, and emerge from the painted surface like dappled, hazy memories. I am more connected to natural entiti...
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