"EXPRESSIONS FROM WITHIN"
My passion has accompanied and often illustrated “My journey through life for art in its different media. It is this that helps me to find who I am. I hope and trust that you will enjoy these expressions from within”.
Manohar is a self-taught artist. Over the years, he has developed an original style and technique using mostly acrylic and oil paints on canvas. He also does oil pastel and pencil sketches and metal embossing on aluminium and copper sheets.
Back in 1976, he began using art as a therapeutic tool for people with mental disabilities & Illness. It has now been over 40 years since he began his profession as a social worker and a trained counsellor.
He founded an organization for children with mental disabilities from the economically backward slums and rural areas of Mysore, Karnataka, in India. He continues to provide counselling services to persons with physical and mental disabilities and their families.
His art expresses his personal journey through life and of his relationship with marginalized people.
He has so far been exhibiting his works only online and is well appreciated by many. Now he wishes to share and sell his paintings to the international community, to support and continue his work for the disabled.
Dear Friends and art lovers,
I am presenting my paintings, kindly choose your best choice as prints and also share it with your friends and contacts. This will encourage.motivate and enable me to continue to paint during this COVID times.
Best Wishes,
Manohar.M.R
"Women From The Barren Land"
FREEDOM
Dear Friends,
I Thank you all for appreciating my work and following me, I will be presenting more new paintings and I would love to connect with each one of you personally and Interested to know more about you and your works of art.
Regards,
Manohar.
India
M.R. Manohar is a self-taught artist. Over the years he has developed an original style and technique using mostly acrylic and oil paints on canvas. He also does oil pastel and pencil sketches, and some metal embossing on aluminum and copper sheets.
His art forms are an expression from within and his life experiences which have had a deep emotional impact on him. He likes to experiment with colors and textures which have the emotional qualities of simplicity.
At 22 years of age, Manohar’s life changed suddenly when he unexpectedly came in contact with people with mental disabilities and was drawn to share his life with them in an International residential therapeutic community for over 12 years. He underwent therapeutic training both in India and Europe, living and working with severely mentally ill and persons with disabilities. He also developed new techniques and skills in using art as a therapy for people with mental illness in 1976-77. It has now been over 43 years since he has been in this profession. In 1988, he founded an Organization as an early intervention program for children with mental disabilities from economically challenged backgrounds.
Web site -www.awmd.in /https://www.facebook.com/awmdmysore/.
Manohar continues to travel extensively to drought-prone villages of North and South Karnataka where he provides training and counseling services to NGOs, as a consultant and resource person, to support people with disabilities and mental illness and their families.
His art is an expression and a reflection of his relationship with marginalized people, and also of his personal journey through life.
"My journey through life has been accompanied and often illustrated by my passion for art in its different media. It is this that helps me to find who I am. I am 66 years old and I now believe my calling is to continue to paint and share my experiences, which I find deeply fulfilling, and at the same time continue my work with persons with mental illness and disabilities. My life purpose is both service and art and these two are deeply interlinked and I cannot imagine one without the other. I hope and trust that you will enjoy these expressions from within. Over the years art has been the essence of my life”.
http://www.manomohan-art.com/http://artmoney.org/users/mrmanohar
