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regards Sharon On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:19 PM Frederick Noronha < [email protected]> wrote: > Goan artist Jezreel Nathan gets featured in Design Fabric > Memories of her idyllic house in Goa > > Jessyl Fernandez > Jezreel at her workstation in Mumbai > > Growing up in her ancestral house in Saligao, Goan artist Jezreel Nathan > worked hard to make it in life. Art came naturally to her as a child. > Passing out from her Alma Mater – Lourdes Convent High School, Saligao, > Jezreel graduated in Commercial Art from Sir J. J. College of Art, Mumbai. > Equipped with a degree in art, there was no looking back. After a stint > with Oglivy and Mather, one of Mumbai’s famous advertising firms, Jezreel > collaborated with artists to design for projects honorarily. That gave her > career the fillip it required. Her art began to be recognised. Some of her > designs were also bought by an online t-shirt store. Moving to Singapore > after marriage, Jezreel began to miss her home in Saligao. Fond memories of > growing up in an idyllic Portuguese ancestral home began clouding her > mind. That’s when the idea of putting those memories into print was born. > The speciality of her series on Goa is they are done digitally. Each > painting has a story to tell. > > In conversation with Ritupriya Basu of Design Fabric, Jezreel reveals that > though she intended to paint these memories a few years ago, she was only > able to do so after settling down to married life in Singapore. Her > memories take her back to 1986 when she was only two years old. Says > Jezreel, “Most of these pieces are drawn from memory and in some of the > artworks, I’ve combined my recollections of my house as I saw it as > two-year-old, as it was when I was a teenager, and as it is today.” > > Some of Jezreels illustrations from the series of her Childhood memories of > her home in Goa are given below: > > Breakfast > > Says Jezreel, “One morning, I sat at my computer with a cup of chai and as > I took a sip, I thought of my grandfather David Nathan, who is my morning > chai buddy back in Goa. I was reminded of the slurping sound he makes while > he takes his first few sips of hot tea and the giant aluminium kettle in > which he’d brew it; sometimes, the kettle was also used as an iron for our > damp school socks when we’d have a power cut, and we had many of those in > Goa.” She also mentions “the black tea mugs with leaves and berries” that > her grandmother wouldn’t allow them to use. > > Old Portuguese Red Floor and slaked lime walls > > “The floor of my house was red and so was the mud, the walls were painted > white with chuna – a mixture of powdered shells and slaked lime — that > would stain your clothes and skin if you brushed against them.” > > The slaked lime walls and the red floor of the house > > “I woke up early every morning to the sound of the baker’s horn and ran to > the back gate, where I’d wait patiently for our neighbour, Aunty Idine > (pronounced – Eeeedheen, I think), to take her goats out for a walk. As > they passed my gate, I’d bleat after them.” > > The Baker’s cycle > > “Kitchen walls blackened up to the roof by soot from using an open wood > fire stove. Millipedes and black hairy caterpillars that dropped from the > roof during the monsoons. There were giant red ants, hornets, wasps and > bees everywhere, always ready to bite and sting. Sticky frogs would hide in > my jeans and in every corner of the house. Mould, fungus and moss > everywhere. We’d have power cuts for days. And of course, poor Internet > connectivity and telephone network because we lived at the foot of a hill.” > > Tamarind Cupboard > > “Tamarind with chilli powder, sea salt and sugar was our favourite snack. > We’d actually make a meal of it, leaving nothing for my mom to cook with. > My mom soon became an ace at hiding the tamarind and though she hid it in > the same cupboard, she’d keep switching the dabbas, making it harder for us > to find it without being caught red-handed. We’re still not sure who we > feared more, my mom or the lizards that crawled out of nowhere.” > > Jezreel’s paintings are “heavily influenced by her emotions.” says > Ritupriya Basu. > > Growing up in the lap of nature made an indelible impression on Jezreel as > a child. “Millipedes and black hairy caterpillars dropped from the roof > during the monsoons. There were giant red ants, hornets, wasps and bees > everywhere, always ready to bite and sting. Sticky frogs would hide in my > jeans and in every corner of the house. Mould, fungus and moss everywhere. > We’d have power cuts for days. And of course, poor Internet connectivity > and telephone network because we lived at the foot of a hill.” Coming from > an “unconventional, quirky and pretty crazy family” only helped make her > experiences more vivid. > > “This is where I fell in love with imperfection and found beauty in > dysfunction. All of these experiences played a role in shaping me as an > artist. It allowed me the freedom to create work which to many might seem > incomplete or lazy or incoherent.” > > Design Fabric, a ‘go-to publication’ captures and documents creative > explorations taking place in India in the fields of visual art and design. > Ritupriya Basu captured these anecdotes beautifully in conversation with > Jezreel Nathan in her interview “An illustrated trip back in time to > Jezreel Nathan’s idyllic housein Goa. > > Jezreel has a lot more to tell! When asked about her upcoming pieces yet > to be published and whether she intended to take the project beyond > Instagram, Jezreel replied, “I have a long list of memories that I can’t > wait to illustrate. I can’t really tell what the next piece is going to be > as the entire process is very spontaneous. Having said that, at some point, > I will illustrate the people I grew up around, like my family, old and new > neighbours, friends and teachers and what I took away from my interactions > with them. I plan to take this project beyond Instagram. I hope to turn > this series into a book once I begin to see a more structured narrative > emerge from this process.” > > “Life in Goa, as a baby and then a teenager, was filled with wonder and > surprise. I grew to love its old world charm though some would find it very > depressing.” > > The above is a concise account of her works and illustrations, some of > which could not be included here eg. ‘Grandmothers mirror, Ferns Bar, Buke > the neighbour’s dog, grinding stone’, etc. For a greater insight into her > works follow her on instagram @Jezreelnathan. > > Picture Credit: Jezreel Nathan > > Information Credit: Design Fabric > > PLEASE VISIT > > http://www.itsgoa.com/goan-artist-jezreel-nathan-gets-featured-in-design-fabric/ > to see the images. 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