DIFFERENT STROKES
INDIAN EXPRESS, AUG 7, 2002
 
   

Deepti Naval
M O O N L I G H T I N G

DEEPTI NAVAL’S soaking in the monsoon magic, only to reach for her paint brush in an instant, to capture the mood on canvas.

Painting is one hobby actress Deepti Naval goes back to when she feels like it. “I have painted since my school days, but for almost a decade, it took a back seat because I was neck-deep in acting. In the past decade I rediscovered this hobby,” she says. A nature enthusiast and fond of trekking, Naval has traveled most of the foothills of the Himalayas. When she is home, she translates some of the scenic beauties on canvas. Oil on canvas is her medium, while landscape and figures form her subjects. Sometime ago, she held an exhibition at the Jehangir Art Gallery and will hold another, once “I accumulate some more works”.

Though no time is fixed for painting, Naval normally sits with her brushes and colours when she is at home. And when she’s not acting.

MOHAMMED WAHJIHUDDIN