His Savage Garden yields fruit

Panchkula-based veteran artist Satwant Singh’s art work, The Savage Garden, has been awarded with M.F. Husain National Award in Drawing in Kalanand All-India Art Contest-2018, organised by Mumbai-based Prafulla Dahakar Art Foundation. The award carries Rs 1 lakh. 

More than three thousand artists from all over India participated in the contest. 

“The images which inhabit my immediate environs inspire my creative impulses and touch the deepest chords of my psyche. These are then transformed into symbols and metaphors which I employ to convey my perceptions, aspirations and manifestations. In my emotive works, I depict half-human, half-animal figures which represent Freudian thoughts on human evolvement, sensibilities, dilemmas, weaknesses and strengths which we encounter on daily basis,” says Satwant Singh. 

His drawing projects urbane savage symphony, struggles and glimpses of hope amongst a chaotic milieu where man and woman carry the loads of emotions, aspirations and bouts of isolation.  

Born in 1948 at Shimla, he graduated from Panjab University and later did a five-year diploma in Applied Art from the Government College of Art, Chandigarh. 

Former head of the Design Faculty, GCCIW, Chandigarh, he has written and illustrated children’s books and has designed large murals. He is a cartoonist, caricaturist and a designer.

He has to his credit more than 55 solo shows of drawings, paintings, graphics, cartoons and caricatures in India and abroad. —TNS