At times in your life you come across things so exquisite,
you simply can’t wait to share their wonder with others. A perfect cup of
coffee, a delectable dessert, a beautiful afternoon on the beach, a splendid
sunset… whatever it is that has made your heart beat a bit faster or your eyes
go a bit wider is worth disclosing to the world – so someone out there can
enjoy the same wonder and awe.
I had this feeling of wonder when I first stumbled across the art of this amazingly talented Uzbek artist Alim Rekhmatullaev - I remember it was on one of my mundane searches on the net for some images that I wanted to use as ‘conversation starters’ for one of the language groups I was working with at the time. With a cup of tea in one hand, I was casually scanning page after page on google images for interesting pictures - when I was completely taken in by the whimsical lines of one of his paintings there simply called ‘solar wind’ - his painting had soul, was fluid, and had an exquisite refinement and a play of light along with the most intricate patterns reminiscent of architectural designs on old buildings of a bygone era. I was hooked and searched him instead.
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| Solar Wind |
Alim’s art is decidedly steeped in poetry and has a
deliberate philosophical shade to it. I
later found most of his paintings are based on Sufism (mystical poets of the 12th
century) , poems (rubayat) of Omar
Khayyam and sonnets of Shakespeare. He works in both watercolours and oils –
recently I contacted the gallery in London that represents him and was so
pleased when he agreed to do a commissioned piece for me – it now has a place of pride in my living
room and gives me ultimate wonder and whimsical bliss every time I look at it.
