Painting


Savia Viegas admits that she has been a closet painter for the last five years. " It's a very private ex-pression,"she says.
Why does she paint?
Savia: To give release to the images that build up as she works on her fiction. "They literally block the highway, its the only way I can make way for the words."

She exhibited  28 works in her home in December 2009 ,  The month long exhibition was entitled 'Picturing Us' and  drew 400 visitors.

Click here to read Gita Chadha's essay ' Picturing Us: A Visual Ethnography '

 

  • Hair growing unnaturally
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • Shadows over the wrought iron bridge
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • Untitled
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • The bull’s master
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • Bull-worship
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • The night the curtains parted
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • His moustache
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • Angels as coffin-bearers
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • Liberation
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • Filipe and Divina
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
  • Bad mother
    gouache on paper: 9”x6”: 2015
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    2008 • Acrylics on canvas • 17” x 13 ½”
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    2008 Acrylics on canvas 17" X 13"
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    2009 Acrylics on canvas 12x16
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    2009 Acrylics on canvas 13 ½" x 17"
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    2009 Acrylics on Canvas 17" X 13"
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    2009 Acrylics on canvas 17X13
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    2009 • Acrylics on canvas • 11 ½” x 16 ¾”
  • 16
    2009 • Acrylics on canvas • 16” x 12”
  • 17
    2009 Acrylics on Canvas 17" X 13"
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    2009 Acrylics on Canvas 16" X 12"
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    2009 Acrylics on Canvas 12" X 12"
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    2009 Acrylics on Canvas 16" X 12"
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    2009 Acrylics on Canvas 16" X 13"
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    2009 Acrylics on Canvas 16" X 13"
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    2009 • Acrylics on canvas •12” x 16”
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    2009 • Acrylics on canvas • 16”x12”
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    2008 • Acrylics on canvas • 13 ½” x 17”
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    2008 • Acrylics on canvas • 13 ½” x 17”
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    2008 • Acrylics on canvas • 17” x 14”