KASHMIR .... Painting #46 by Neha Bisht/ Oil on Canvas

KASHMIR — Painting by Neha Bisht
Oil on Canvas / 30 × 36 / Style Impressionism

This landscape is part of the property of my friend & colleague Sonal Handoo in Kashmir. (her husband’s property)

I make very few commissioned art pieces. Primarily because I only paint that which speaks to me.
If a picture, or a landscape or a face does not talk to me, I never paint it.
The energy of the landscape or the muse must necessarily connect with me.
Being an intuitive person, connections happen spontaneously . I never consciously attempt it to happen or to break.
I let my Unconscious rule. No regrets. my Unconscious knows much more than my conscious. :)

Coming back to the painting, when Sonal showed me this picture, I just felt it in my heart.

I felt that I was standing there, amongst the trees.

She wanted it painted & I wanted to paint it. :)

We discussed the deal , the money and the elements and style. And I got down to painting it.

Kashmir is a beautiful place .
Its breathtaking valleys are nestled amidst Himalayas, Hindukush Mountains, Pir Panjal Range, Saltoro Mountain Range .

Autumn of every place is Unique in colour.
Autumn of Kashmir Valley is saffron in colour.
Vibrant and mellow saffron orange colour of the autumn leaves of Chinar tree create a divine canopy and carpet. Chinar tree is embedded in the culture and topography of Kashmir.
Also, the fragrant and aromatic Saffron Herb is native to Kashmir.

Saffron Orange is a very auspicious colour for Tuesday and a very sacred colour in India.
And saffron is the colour of Kashmir Autumn. :)

Once, famous Persian poet, Amir Khusru wrote in Persian, these lines, describing Kashmir. — 
“Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
Hameen ast-o, hameen ast-o, hameen ast.
( If there is a paradise on earth,
It is this, it is this, it is this.. )

Today, Kashmir stands mutilated by Politics of Human Society.

When I was a small child the contours of Kashmir in the map of India were like the face or the crown of India.
In old Bollywood movies all the beautiful songs were shot in Kashmir. No love story was complete without Kashmir.
The melody and beauty of Kashmir, pulsated through all of India.

But today, the political agenda of territorial invasion & expansion of involved countries has reduced Kashmir to a political controversy. It is an object of control today.

And this is not the case of just Kashmir. This is the story of innumerable countries and territories.

Warrior Politics based on Control, Conquest and Expansion has destroyed so many beautiful lands on this planet.
Ukraine, Crimea, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Vietnam … the list is endless. These beautiful lands have mercilessly been made into an object of “Political Ego” .

People suffer !
Rivers bleed !
Forests cannot breathe !
But our Political leaders are happy.
They get to travel to Prague and Geneva to plead their cause !

Once a paradise, Kashmir bleeds helplessly today. It is an open wound that will never heal.
But there was time when melody and laughter rang through the valley.
Today bullets and fear whizzes past.
Who is justified and who is unjust is not the question anymore.
Whose blood will make the river red, this is the immediate thought !

My humble tribute to the beauty of Kashmir that was once Amir Khusru’s Paradise.
KASHMIR / oil on canvas / Impressionism

Painting by Neha Bisht ...

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