EIGHTEEN KASHMIR WATERCOLOURS DONE BY ARTIST D.N.WALLI

                                         

      ( Srinagar City and Jhelum river )

                   ( Feeding the ducks )

    ( Returning from the Shrine )

  ( Naidyar Rainawari bridge )

 ( Autumn visits village Kralpora , Kashmir)

 ( A village scene in Kashmir )

 ( Approaching Pahalghaam )

(A view of Hariparbat from Nigin Lake )

( Rainawari locality in Kashmir)

   (Bohri Kadal bridge over Maar canal )

 ( The vegetable sellers )

( A Kashmiri tea shop or Chaaya Vàan )

( Saffron fields of Pampore Kashmir' )

( The gate to the Ziyarat of Makhdoom Sahib)

( Jhelum valley road in Autumn)

( The Shrine with tulips on its roof)

( Plucking saffron flowers in Pampore )

( Habba Kadal bridge at night )

EIGHTEEN   WATERCOLOURS  OF  ARTIST  D .N. WALLI  (1908-2006)

Kashmir is everywhere in his work. His special focus has been to present speaking images of life in Kashmir . He has painted women engaged in daily chores , children , boatmen , fish selling women , Bazaar scenes , snowscapes , autumn Chinars , poplars ,saffron fields , rice husking villagers, hills , brooks , river Ghats , temples ,mosques , canals , fruit laden trees ,houses with thatched roofs, innocence and poverty of his native land .                                                                    

If you look at his work , you need not read much to know how people lived in Kashmir just five or six decades back . Every work is full of life and speaking . Every frame conveys how we lived in our recent past . 

D.N.Walli was also a noted poet .As poet, he used Almast as his pseudonym. He wrote poetry in his mother tongue. He also wrote Gazals in Urdu. I quote an Urdu  couplet of D N Walli Almast ..

 "Mein uriyaan Kar ke chhodoon-gaa jhalak oss husn e pinha ki,

Jabhi to kheenchta huun roz mein tasveer jaanan ki.."

( I shall make that hidden beauty open and known to all,

Everyday ,for that reason alone , I draw pictures of my beloved )

( Avtar Mota)

PS

All these water colours have been uploaded from the book.."Dina Nath Walli: A Passion to Portray Kashmir " by Dr. Tej Krishen Walli published in 2017...

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