Rotring pen: Artist Gauri Shanker's magic wand

The All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS) has organised a solo exhibition of paintings made by Gauri Shanker Soni using Rotring Pen Ink. Titled 'Reviving Strokes', the exhibition is a treat for art lovers, and will be held until February 28 at AIFACS art gallery.

Gauri Shanker Soni is an artist blessed with the wisdom of art in true sense. He is a recognised artist in his own credit having incredible creative energy working with the varied medium. Gauri Shankar Soni was born in Agra in 1938 and had a challenging time in childhood. He has been greatly fascinated by European engravings and wanted to do a similar kind of work in his own style and medium.

Once upon a time in Europe, the art of engraving was fairly popular among artists, which attracted Gauri Shanker Soni. He used Rotring pen to capture beautiful architectures of India, with detail drawing to create similar monochromic magic in his art. His black and white series with beautiful light and shade are inspired by the engraving technique of olden days.

Gauri works with Pen Ink on Paper, Oil Color, Water Colour, and Synthetic Enamel paints. He experiments with wide-ranging materials effortlessly even at his ripe age of eighty, which is difficult in general.