SOLITARY ...Oil on Canvas / Genre Lyrical Landscape / Style - Impressionism
My love for the Slavic , Soviet, Siberian, Caucasian landscapes is known to all who know me. It is a calling in my heart 💓.
This beautiful region, however, is completely embroiled in political rifts and controversies. It is full of hostile Political demarcations and boundaries and battles. A turbulent zone since time immemorial.
However, one cannot deny the strong cultural, literary and artistic resemblance and bond the nations of this region share with each other, despite all political hostilities.
I strongly believe that governments can be divided. People can be divided. But the culture, art, traditions, music, food , which is deeply rooted in the topography of a region, cannot be divided politically.
Hence, to make it simple , I personally like to refer to this beautiful region as the Land of Birches..
My painting SOLITARY… is a tribute to beauty of this Land of Birches. It is from my "Autumn Collection - Land of Birches".
When I was painting this, of course I referenced many pictures of Siberian plateau. And referenced elements from various photos.
It is easy to capture a physical scene. But not easy to capture the essence or soul of a place. Only a person who belongs to that region, carries the essence of that place inside.
When I uploaded this photo on my other online profile,(Deviant Art), a Slovakian friend immediately remarked that this painting reminds him of the great Tatra Mountain Range of Slovakia. And he sent me some photos of the mountain.
I was stunned, The Tatra Range is exactly like this !
I felt good .....
I felt good that I could capture the unique essence of the place well enough for a native of that region to recognise and
identify with it. 😊
In SOLITARY I wanted to create a feeling of being alone and one with the Universe.
I wanted to create an expanse that embodies silence, peace and melody.
SOLITARY ..
The rhythm of the Universe,
Flows as energy in every particle.
Yet each particle is Solitary in its existence.
Standing like a dot in the expanse.
Oil on Canvas / Genre Lyrical Landscape / Style — Impressionism
Painting by Neha Bisht 
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