Echo of Love, October Art Gallery, Kathmandu, 1984
→When Seasons Change, Nepal Art Council Gallery, Kathmandu, 1996
→Sunnya Manka Stabdha Aankhaharoo – A tribute to their late Majesties, NAFA Art Gallery, Kathmandu, 2002
Nepalese painter.
Shashikala Tiwari is one of the first internationally acknowledged Nepalese painters. Born to a family of educated Brahmins in the Bishalnagar district in Kathmandu, she began painting from a very young age, working early in the morning before leaving for school. She studied fine arts at the Maharaja Sayarijao University in Baroda, India. She defines her painting as “semi-impressionist”, as a “floating form” in which imagination merges with nature. Although her pictures are meant to depict her environment, they do so through the perspective of a remembrance process, in which Kathmandu Valley remains green under clear skies and surrounded with the dazzling peaks of the Himalayan mountains, where children play in the streets and gods walk the Earth. Reality is quite different now, but Tiwari still tries to “capture her memories” on canvas. Her two favourite pieces are Merging With Nature (1988) and Looking at My Valley (1988), but the very best, according to her, is When Seasons Change (1996), which is permanently exhibited at the Asian Art Museum in Japan.