The Commonwealth Karachi and Alliance Francaise de Karachi jointly organized the book launch of ‘Painted Eggs’ along with the Inauguration of Audubon Miniatures Exhibition ‘Bird Paintings on Egg Shells’ by the famous Nature & Wildlife artist Ghulam Abbas Khaskheli.
This is the first of its kind exhibition and most pleasant addition to Karachi’s art scene not only offering a high quality, minutely detailed study of birds painted in rich colors on specially treated eggshells.
Syed Khawar Mehdi from Commonwealth Karachi expounded on the subtle but solid change this Think Tank is bringing through awareness, advocacy, and coming up with dynamic workable solutions towards the political, social, and developmental needs of Karachi and its sustainability through education, environmental awareness, energy & empathy – the enablers to a megacity’s people, their comfort, happiness and prosperity in a liveable and competitive hyper-dynamic urban landscape.
Ghulam Abbas Khaskheli is not just a wildlife artist but carries that deep love for all things nature and most importantly his efforts are directed towards creating awareness and conservation. Khaskheli is a very simple person at heart, a great artist, and a terrible businessman. For the sake of living, he got a master’s degree in economics, not knowing at that time that his deeper desire to paint animals was to become a lifelong career. This opportunity was provided by a job in the Government of Sindh Wildlife Department, a job which he simply loved, as it provided him the critical opportunity to watch animals in their natural habitat, to sketch and paint them on various surfaces, and materials. Today Khaskheli has a large number of paintings to his credit which brings him not only immense pleasure but the gratifying fact of creating awareness through art for conservation and acknowledging the role nature & environment played in developing his talent & career. For Khaskheli it is much more than a career, a lifelong passion that brings him closer to nature and the creator.
The exhibition continues from June 10, Friday to June 14, Tuesday, 2022. Except for Sunday.
