Photo Essay: The Secret Life of Studios
Sobha Singh was someone who had served in the army overseas, but had settled to the life of a painter in a remote Himalayan village. He had created the most incredible portraits of the Sikh gurus, his realism and a little bit of imagination bringing them to life in hundreds of thousands of homes and on altars—not unlike a latter-day Raja Ravi Varma. What fascinated me at the time, and I remember three visits over the course of two years, was a deep sense of melancholy, the stories that flew like bees around a hive, of Norah Richards, the potter, whose grandson had drowned in the fountain outside her studio.
- ▪Sobha Singh was someone who had served in the army overseas, but had settled to the life of a painter in a remote Himalayan village.
- ▪He had created the most incredible portraits of the Sikh gurus, his realism and a little bit of imagination bringing them to life in hundreds of thousands of homes and on altars—not unlike a latter-day Raja Ravi Varma.
- ▪What fascinated me at the time, and I remember three visits over the course of two years, was a deep sense of melancholy, the stories that flew like bees around a hive, of Norah Richards, the potter, whose grandson had drowned in the founta
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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