Guvvala couple exhibits Dharma Padam series at art gallery

A painter couple of Rajuhmundry popularly known as Guvvala, have organized their first exhibition under the title ‘Dharma Padham’ where the life and death of Lord Budha is depicted in 41 paintings. The paintings were put on display at the art gallery as a tribute to the capital city, Amaravati.

Guvvala Kenedy and his wife Kenedy Padma are both prominent masters in their craft and have devouted their life to art and paintings. Their series of paintings on historical, ancient happenings were with a touch of vibrant colors against the routine dark, brick or black and white colors.

The series, ‘Dharma Padam’ is a work based on the birth of Siddhartha, his understanding of the inner peace, enlightenment, evolving as Budhha, his preaching and maha nishkramanam as Gauthama Budhha. The work took the couple nearly 6 years to finish the series comprising of 41 paintings depicting each incident of the life of Buddha.

Speaking to City Tab, Guvvala Kenedy says,‘’We both work as guest faculty at SP University in Gulbarga and spend half a year there. We do own an institute that teaches art and painting at Rajuhmundry. Our journey began together and art is the soul of our relationship.

We earlier painted as many as 108 designs of Lord Shiva. Our works are exhibited at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Amritsar and various parts of Karnataka. The Buddha paintings are an attempt to interpret all of his life’s happenings and teachings within restricted canvas.’’

Ask Kenedy what he has on mind in connection to art and the city; he says that there is an intense need for setting up art galleries in the capital city such that local artistes are benefited. We are ready to give away our works of Dharma Padam to be exhibited at Amaravati gallery. Government should promote Andhra artists in a big way, he said. Works of Dharam Padam will be put for display at the art gallery till Monday.