Watch Goa's historical structures on canvas
Cyril D'Cunha - TOINS - 10 May 2000

PANAJI: The 26-year old, Goa-based Mumbaiite, Sunita Dalvi is all set to
hold a solo exhibition of pen and ink sketches of buildings of Goa
titled Sketches of Goa from May 9 to 13, at the Kala Academy, here.

``The sketches are also the story of how a brief encounter in Goa can
change a person's attitude towards life,'' says Dalvi, ``It changed mine
and I don't mind sharing my story with you.'' From sketching buildings
in Mumbai, beginning with a National Hospital building at Mahim, to her
present stint with the well-known Goan architect Gerard D'Cunha, whose
book Houses of Goa carries several of her sketches, this art graduate
from the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, restricts her interest chiefly
to historic structures and built forms, like monuments and houses,
sticking to true form and scale.

This architect-artist's work at the Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, and the
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, for the Houses of Goa exhibition
earlier, had drawn a lot of appreciation, both from art connoisseurs and
critics alike.

Dalvi told The Times of India, her latest project was a research on the
fort at Panala in Kolhapur, which she started a year ago and hopes to
complete soon. She hopes to capture the historical structure and the
social issues that go with it in her pen and ink sketches, by which she
would like to make people aware of the fort's historic aspects and its
greatness.

The artist will be present during her latest exhibition to interact with
the visitors.