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Four students of Bachelor’s at Lalitkala Campus are exhibiting their group painting exhibition ‘Hope’. The exhibition that began on Tuesday at Nepal Art Council, Baber Mahal features 76 artworks using mediums like oil color, watercolor, acrylic color, charcoal, and more by Nirmal Pant, Sajan Hyongou, Sunil Pandey and Vikram Shrestha.

As students do not have much financial support for an exhibition, it took them five months to make the exhibition a success. They are financially in debt and about the exhibition, Vikram shared, “We four connected instantly and we saved money from our pockets for the exhibition. In the course of our work, the owner of frame store was well impressed by our work that he did us a generous favor by making the frames in credit.” The exhibition started with a positive spirit and they are happy with the favorable outcome.

These enthusiastic artists are in search of an authentic way to establishing themselves as artists, and which is why they have focused on themes like landscape, still life and portrait. They have created urban and rural landscape in realistic way and have created portraits of living goddess Kumari, men, women, children and among others.

Looking over the collaborative works, it is tough to find flaws in their creativity. However, there are rooms for upgrading their skills. In the exhibition, Sunil and Sajan have created the living Goddess Kumari in different moods. They have used different medium to depict the same.

Sajan has painted Kumari in charcoal and acrylic color. She looks raw and realistic while posing for camera. The Kumari in charcoal is seen with a pout and in another portrait; he has painted her without the headgear. However, Sunil’s painting of Kumari has been captured in natural posture where the Kumari is seen with her headgear.

Art for them is a way to exude their passion for contributing in the field of fine arts. The artworks are on sale from prices ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 25,000 and will continue till Saturday.