New Delhi, April 4 (Inditop.com) Art is charting an eclectic course in the capital. After its brush with cereal art, glass art and vegetable art – Delhi is now readying for egg art.
Egg carving is a fragile art form that uses ostrich, emu, goose, duck, turkey and hen eggs to create colourful but detailed miniature art.
Artist Farha Sayeed, who ventured into egg art nearly a decade ago, cuts and handcrafts her eggshells with pearls, beads, crystals, brocade, velvet, satin, golden laces and rhinestone chains.
Her first solo exhibition in India titled, “Eggxotica,” would take place at the prestigious Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre April 11-15.
Sayeed improvises her art by fusing “Indian and Islamic elements”.
The eggs used for artistry belong to hatchery or farm grown birds only. No eggs are taken from the wild, says the artist.
Her eggs were first displayed in October 2003 for a month by the Art Lovers’ Group of the renowned Danish Pharmaceutical Company H. Lundbeck A/S and a solo exhibition of Decorated Eggs and Silk Paintings was hosted by the Frederiksberg Commune in Denmark at Byggeriets Hus in April 2004.
A part of her collection of decorated eggs was also displayed at the International Ramadan Exhibition in Jeddah Oct 16-17, 2005.
Sayeed is a member of the International Egg Art Guild (IEAG), a non-profit association of artists, artisans, and craftspeople, who work with natural eggs as an art or folk art medium.
Egg decorating has been around for centuries and is often used by folk artists to tell stories from across the world. Pysanky, a wax resist technique, uses geometric, plant and animal motifs to narrate folk tales.
Another form of egg art was inspired by Charles Faberge, a Russian goldsmith who was commissioned by the Czar to make surprise Easter gifts for his family.
