MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
of Zervas Art Club in Qatar
RASHMI AGARWAL
Email: rashmigold@yahoo.com Mobile: +974 55603845, +974 50565700
YOU’RE WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL WORLD OF ART CULTURE & SCIENCE
“You don’t choose the life of an artist – it chooses you”.
Think big, think fast, think ahead. Our dreams have to be bigger, our ambition higher, our commitment deeper and our efforts greater”.
Taking a stride forward she decided to accept the presidency and establish Scientific, Cultural & Artistic Organisation “Zervas Art Club in Qatar” and “Zervas Art Club in West Bengal, India” by the world federation of Zervas Art Club & Club for UNESCO of art & letters of Achaia.
The position comes with an Honour but also with a great responsibility. She now shoulders a commitment towards society for the upliftment of its art loving people and providing a passage to them to portray their art to the world. Here again her focus will be to encourage the hidden talents abiding within the person and inspire them to present their latent passion towards the art to the world. Zervas Art Club will be provide the even platform for the same.
CV OF THE PRESIDENT RASHMI AGARWAL
Couture designer & artist
Founder & President for Zervas Art Club in Qatar
Founder & President for Zervas Art Club, West Bengal, India
Founder & President-Middle-East Art & Silk Painters (MAPS)- Qatar
President & Curator-Spandan International-Iran and GULF Region.
Board Member, Silk Painters International (SPIN), USA
Founder & Chairperson- Oyster Silk Art
Agarwal is a couture designer and experienced master artist whose work gets consistently better from one creation to the next to rely on inspiration is to starve. Art is her first love. Since child- hood, she has been highly engaged in visual art. Paintings and Art, to her, represents meditation and very near to God and nature. Agarwal grew up in India, racking up degrees in Economics and Finance that had very little to do with art. Destiny rewarded her effort. She now lives in Doha, the capital city of Qatar since 2004. It is the beauty of her surroundings that inspires her Creativity and painting. She uses all kinds of surface design techniques in her work like Dyes, Paints, block printing and materials like textile paint, ink, and fusible web.
She analyse marketing intelligence and artistic vision for every design she make to ensure it is the best it can be. “Artists need to have an intuition and eye for design that cannot always be taught and to be a successful artist and designer, fashion has to be your lifestyle”, she says. She is very dedicated towards her work. She had to exit her comfort zone and switch to an entirely new territory of silk art. But she did, and successfully so. During her journey through the art, a few years ago she realised there was an artist in each person. Few are able to depict their art on the canvas or some other form and represent at the appropriate forum.
This is where she nurtured the Idea of providing an even platform to all those who have the talent and passion towards art but for some reason or other not able to develop it further.
Few years back with this Idea in focus she founded a Qatar based Art community Middle East Art and Silk Painters – MAPS. Middle-east Art and Silk Painters – An art gallery community where gallery & artists grow together. It is a gallery of Artists, Painters, Practitioners and Educators in Qatar. After years of experience and hard work, it was time for Agarwal to enhance the horizon of her Idea. It was time for her to integrate the Qatar based Artist at a global platform and at the same time create awareness among the global artist about the rich heritage of India & Qatar and their Art loving community. Taking a stride forward she decided to accept the presidency and establish Scientific, Cultural & Artistic Organisation “Zervas Art Club in Qatar” and “Zervas Art Club in West Bengal, India” by the world federation of Zervas Art Club & Club for UNESCO of art & letters of Achaia.
The position comes with an Honour but also with a great responsibility. She now shoulders a commitment towards society for the upliftment of its art loving people and providing a passage to them to portray their art to the world. Here again her focus will be to encourage the hidden talents abiding within the person and inspire them to present their latent passion towards the art to the world. Zervas Art Club will be provide the even platform for the same. Agarwal is inspired to give it all back to the society.
She believes each has something precious and special to give to all of us and many of her art has a spiritual quality with the power to heal hearts and spirits, if one is open to their message. And so it is often in these differences between the architecture of man and the architecture of nature, where she gains most of her artistic inspiration. It is where the most compelling creations can be created, and where the stories she wishes her art to tell can most often be found. Her most important element is her choice of colour. It’s what creation is all about. The right colour makes the difference between a good art and a great one. Each stroke is the baton of a master conductor, harmonizing every aspect of her designs, patterns, textures, and colours, are all united to create a masterpiece.
Someday, Agarwal dreams to bring the harmony between the global artists and paint the globe white with no boundaries, without discrimination of caste, creed or religion. She dreams to provide global recognition to all her deserving artists who have the passion and cache towards the Art.