Sarita Dongol
Green plants and vegetables are the recurrent images in Sarita Dongol’s paintings. Her works depict green environment and creates music and movement within green leaves, vegetables, red and green chilies through her rhythmic lines and balanced combination of colours. She is very fond of depicting immobile objects that exist in our surroundings. The feeling towards these objects have directly or indirectly motivated and influenced her creative enthusiasm and thus currently has become her perfect subject matter in her paintings.
Green plants and vegetables are the recurrent images in Sarita Dongol’s paintings. Her works depict green environment and creates music and movement within green leaves, vegetables, red and green chilies through her rhythmic lines and balanced combination of colours. She is very fond of depicting immobile objects that exist in our surroundings. The feeling towards these objects have directly or indirectly motivated and influenced her creative enthusiasm and thus currently has become her perfect subject matter in her paintings. If we arranged them in a certain ways, she finds them quite artistic and interesting. Furthermore, she finds a deep relationship between humans and the subject that she is dealing with. Her paintings are the conjunction between human emotions and her creative sentiments towards immobile objects. When she comes to think of life in general that persist in nature, she finds a deep connection of time, continuity and sharing of space between human beings and other life forms such as plants. Humans go through varied sensations and experiences in life, such as happiness, pleasure, pain, fear, satisfaction etc. Likewise she feels plants also go through similar experiences but in a different way. And they are not able to express themselves as we do. Plants also go through the inevitable natural processes. The seeds grow into stems, they bear flowers or fruits. If the fruit is not utilized in time, then it rots, falls and mixes with the soil. This is relevant to human life as well.
In this series of artworks she has made an effort to link the hidden but significant interrelation between various immobile and mobile life forms. She has expressed this relationship through her personal language by assorted colors, shades and images, composing all of them in her canvas.
Date of Birth : 1973 Mikhabhal, Lalitpur-Nepal
Professional Education:
1992-1994 —IFA Lalit Kala Campus, Tribuvan University, Nepal, (History of art & Painting)
1996-1998— BFA Lalit Kala Campus, Tribuvan University, Nepal, (History of art & Painting)
2002 (three months) Kyushu Sangyo university Faculty of Art, Fukuoka, Japan,
(Special painting course under professor IMAIZUMI KENJI)
2013-Master Degree of Fine Art (History of art & painting) Tribuvan University, Nepal
Professional work experiences:
1992-03 Art Instructor at Mitri Shishu Bording School, Swayambhu
1998-03 Art & Craft coordinator/instructor of ECCA project at (Dharan, Sankhuwasaba, Bardiya, Tulsipur, Dang, Gotikhel, Nepalgunj, (with street children & disable children)
2007- Established Private Art School CCAS, Chakupat, Patan
2010-till now- Lecturer at Himalayan College of Engineering (ARCH), Baneshwor, KTM
2010- Art & Craft Instructor at “ SUNAGAVA” Women Mentally Disable center, Durbar Marg
2011-2013 Art & Craft Instructor at Disable Service Association center, Bungamati village Org. by CHETANA
2011-“Art Education Teacher Training In Kanya College, Pokhara , Japan-Nepal FEA
Present Position
Lecturer, Himalayan College of Engineering, Chyashal, Lalitpur
Founder, Community Children Art School, (EST. 2007) Chakupat, Lalitpur
2010-2015 Gallery Curator & Event coordinator at Newa Chen Art Gallery
2014—-Founder, Classic Gallery, Chakupat, Lalitpur
Awards:
1992 1st prize in “Human Happiness” org. by Srijana Contemporary Art Gallery Nepal
2001 1st prize “The second eastern region” painting competitions and exhibition, India
(Org. by Camlin Art Foundation, Kolkota)
2004 Special prize of 35th National wide painting competition, org. NAFA
2011- Arniko yuwa puraskar samman & Gold Medal.
2013- Hem Ganga Young Talent Women Artist Award, KTM, Nepal
2013 – JANAMAT – Mahendra lal Samman Purskar, Panouti, Kavre
2018- Toyota City assembly Chairman award-Org Globally arts Movement, Nagoya, Japan
International work shop & Asian artist residency:
2002- Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (Three months)
2006- Uijea Art Museum, Gwanju, South Korea (Three months)
2010-International painting, music, dance seminar “SAMBHAV” at Delhi, India
2013-Floating Peers International Social practice Workshop, Porapara Space For Artist, Chittagong, Bangladesh
2018- Thailand- Nepal Art workshop and Exhibition, org. Andaman Culture Learning Center Museum, Krabi, Thailand
Solo Exhibitions:
2000 “Defining Trees” org. Siddhartha Art Gallery, KTM. Nepal
2001 Painting collection Exhibition Org. R.A.P.S Association and MAIRIE de comps, France
2001 Contemporary Painting Exhibition at Mahendra Art Gallery, Pokhara
2002 “Trees and Trials” at NAFA art gallery, Naxal, Nepal
2002 “My view on trees” at Sapporo Station, Hokkaido Japan
2003 “Creation and Creations” at NAFA Art Gallery, Naxal, KTM Nepal
2004 “Revelation of Invisibility” an installation and paintings Exhibition at Gallery Nine
2004 “Scream of Nature” at Lumbini Art Gallery, NAFA Nepal
2005 Recollection from 1998-2005 paintings exhibition at Buddha Art Gallery, KTM Nepal
2005 “The Sinuous Shapes of Trees” at NANNANSEI NO KAZE Gallery, Dazifu city Japan
2006 “Tree and Voyeurism” at Art Shop, Kathmandu
2012 ‘Voice Of Nature ‘ The Dipot Gallery II Sydney, Australia
2019 – Solo Collection Exhibition from 1992 to 2019
Since 1992- 2020, participated around seventy group National and International group art exhibition and workshops in different countries.
Member
Nepal Fine Art Association (NAFA)
Artist Society of Nepal (ASON)
Women Artist Group of Nepal
Travel
France, Switzerland, Belgium, Thailand, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Holland, Thailand and India
Collections:
Norway, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, Canada, Australia, Korea, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, India, U.K, U.S.A & National Museum in Nepal (NAFA), Uijiea Art Museum, Gwangu city, South Korea and private collection in Nepal.
