Shawdesh desk:

Artist and fashion designer Kuhu Plamondon has celebrated women in her solo exhibition under way at Edge Gallery at Gulshan in the capital.

The exhibition titled The Making of Kuhu Art III is featuring 54 acrylic and mixed media paintings along with sarees depicting flowers, women and cityscape of Dhaka.

The event has been organised by Edge Foundation.

Kuhu Plamondon began her career as a painter in 1972 and fashion designer as 1980.

She did not organise any exhibition for the past few years due to the emergence of the Covid-19 crisis.

She painted women garment workers walking on the streets of Dhaka, women and girls selling flowers along with colourful butterflies. A few paintings and sarees designed by the artist contain Tuberose, Lilies, Water Lilies and dragonflies. She also painted the cityscape of Dhaka and the sky using pink and blue colours during the lockdown period.

Among the artworks, her mixed media painting titled When Night Meets the Day 1 depicts a woman with the wings of a butterfly walking towards an amber coloured land with chaotic blue sky.

In the acrylic painting titled Metamorphosis: The Butterfly Vendor 2, she painted a woman carrying a basket of flowers on her head. A lot of butterflies and a bumble bee are following her.

The mixed media painting titled Twilight over Dhaka: Covid Sky portrays cityscape of Dhaka. In the painting, people are seen spending their days inside their locked homes and parrots have taken over the sky.

The exhibition, which began on November 18, will end today.