Regmi has been painting for the past 15 years. And although an environmental engineer by profession, she also makes time for poetry, literary writing and art in her life. The current exhibition, her eighth solo event in the country, showcases the great Himalayas in a series of paintings which the artist says express her “extreme emotional attachment to her nation and soil”. Regmi says she has quite literally poured her sincere love, affection and respect for Nepal in these paintings. “Painting these mountains, the most precious gift nature has bestowed upon Nepal, made me nostalgic. The great Himalayas are a link between heaven and earth,” she says.

The artist, not quite content with celebrating the glory of Nepal’s glorious mountains in paintings, has also expressed her love for nature and her motherland in a series of verses. These poems, which appear alongside each of her 15 paintings, are patriotic in nature; they are “songs out of her patriotic heart,” in her own words.

Strong, bold powerful strokes characterise Regmi’s paintings and it is evident the artist has attempted to make these works look beautiful. They are, however, not just depictions of beauty. The paintings, she says, have a message to give. “We must safeguard these natural blessings,” she continues. “Shielding the Himalayas from the detrimental effects of climate change and protecting them from the threats of global warming are an obligation all of us must try and fulfil. It is our duty to conserve Mother Nature so that future generations could breathe and walk on this clean, green, and heavenly earth.”

The exhibition continues till May 9.