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art<br />
technique and charm…he has changed h<strong>is</strong> style<br />
since and has now developed more on h<strong>is</strong> semi<br />
abstract figurative works.’ The late Lain Singh<br />
Bangdel had also commented, ‘He (Shyam Lal)<br />
also projects h<strong>is</strong> own v<strong>is</strong>ion as a versatile art<strong>is</strong>t<br />
and creates a very familiar world which he finds<br />
around him… Thus Shyam Lal has so much<br />
changed h<strong>is</strong> style since I saw him painting a flower<br />
as my young art student many years ago…’.<br />
Shyam Lal first won a competition in the<br />
Landscape Painting Competition during the<br />
Youth Festival in 1974, then won Gold Medals<br />
in Poster Competitions in 1982 and 1983<br />
organized by the World Hindu Organization. In<br />
1984, he won first prizes in Zone of Peace and<br />
Paintings of Lord Buddha competitions in<br />
Kathmandu. The art<strong>is</strong>t was recipient of runnerup<br />
prizes in a contest for Children’s Picture Book<br />
Illustration (ACCU), Japan, and the 3 rd Seoul<br />
International Illustration Contest in Korea. In<br />
1997, Shyam Lal won the First Prize for<br />
contemporary painting during the National Art<br />
Exhibition in Kathmandu, a prestigious<br />
competition in which the art<strong>is</strong>t had won a third<br />
prize in 1971.<br />
Top: Shyam Lal’s portraiture of street children<br />
- the muted colours are indicative of their<br />
plight.<br />
Above: Buddha and the Apsaras.<br />
Right: A white bearded sage comes to life with<br />
swift strokes of the brush - perhaps the<br />
heavenly colours reflect a high awareness.<br />
28 MAR-APR 2006 SPACES
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