Art Creations  

            Firstly Keki concentrated on paintings only but after 1945 his interest turned towards photography. He participated regularly in national & international competitions until 1954.Keki’s contributions in the art mainly divided as  

1.            Paintings

2.            Photography

3.            Origami

4.            Sculpture  

Paintings  

His hundreds of sketches & paintings are in western style as well as traditional Indian & Chinese style. The media of his paintings & sketches were pencil, charcoal, oil paints, Water colour, poster colour & the base which he had used is tin, glass, porcelain & Paper. Not a single painting is on canvas.  

some examples of his paintings are

  •       Greedy Leopards

  •       Jealousies tree

  •       Forest

  •       Ummar Khaiyam

  •       Stormy weather

  •       Shakespeare’s cottage

  •       Nature

  •       Jahangir & Nurjahan

  •       Harvest  

Photography   

            Keki’s photographic works can be divided in 6 types as,

  • Tabletop

  • Symbolic pictures

  • Portrait

  • Still life

  • Pictures of Animal & Birds

  • Other type

  • Faked Photography

 

Some famous & prize winner photographs are

      Þ Winter

      Þ Hawker

      Þ The Dragon

      Þ Split milk

      Þ Which come first?

      Þ Silly duck

      Þ The murder of the innocent

      Þ The leaves take leave

      Þ Portrait of Nehru

      Þ Famine

      Þ The witch of Chalisgaon (winner of Int. salon.)

      Þ Philosopher

      Þ Still life

      Þ Thirsty

      Þ Love in Egypt

      Þ Escape

 

Origami  

At the age of 60, he learned origami from a book of Roberts Harbin’s ‘Origami, the art of a paper folding.’

He had made monkeys, bears, dragons, wolfs, dogs, cats, goats, penguins, cocks, ducks etc. near about 5000 pieces.  

Sculpture  

some examples of sculptures are

Þ          External bondage

Þ          Forbidden fruit

Þ          Prehistoric Bull

Þ          The dragon

Þ          Ganga & Yamuna