Daily Times

LAHORE: A two-day solo furniture exhibition titled Furniture Collectibles of artworks by artist Nayyar Zia kicked off at Studio Lane 79, Gajjumata on Saturday.

The exhibition featured as many as 269 pressed flowers wall art collection, over 12 photography prints and numerous varieties of home furniture and accessories including study console, chocolate mystique console, mini chest of drawers, Captain’s Mast centre table sets, white linen beds, oval spiral beds, exotic wood furniture, lamps and lone piper settees among other things.

The artist used the interplay between the structure of furniture and the innate splendour of wood as a mode of self-expression. The artist employed solid wood and a combination of different wood veneers, using traditional techniques, combining several wood types that both simultaneously contrasted and complemented each other. Nayyar Zia used wood including American oak, African padauk, African wenge, purple-heart wood, Burmese teak and others.

The artist tried to preserve and enhance the natural beauty of wood.

Zia, while exclusively talking to Daily Times, said that his unwavering love for wood inspired him to combine the aesthetic beauty of wood into furniture pieces that was his own idiosyncratic artistic culmination. He said that his artworks were inspired by nature. Zia further said that adhering to the functional principles of furniture-making, his primary focus was on the aesthetic relationship between inflexible and flexible forms, inherent in nature.

A visitor, Muhammad Ali, also while talking exclusively to Daily Times said that Zia was a born artist, as reflected through his creations. The visitor expressed how Zia’s exquisite pressed flowers art Blooming Abstracts added warmth, colour and vitality to indoor ambiance.

Another visitor Rukhsana Zeb said that every piece by Zia was unique due to fine finishing and polishing of furniture and accessories which was not an easy task.