KATHMANDU: Art has no limitations, whether it is making a sculpture or shooting a photo or painting a canvas. All this is art.

And these different forms can be combined to create yet another piece of art. When a sculpture is photographed and a painting is created from it, this is also art. Such are the artworks created by French artist Aymeric Hamon, whose solo stencil art exhibition titled ‘Silent Witnesses’ is going on at the Pulchowk Bakery Café from April 3.

Though the artworks on display are a few in number, they are all created with much artistic skill. Stencil painting is a type of painting for which the subject to be painted first has to be photographed and then special effects are given to it using Photoshop. At least two or three copies are made of the same painting, with different parts highlighted in each. The highlighted parts are coloured and then the different copies are merged together to form the final piece.

Altogether there are 10 stencil works on display with their own impressions. The colour combination in the paintings are quite justified as the colours bring life to the works. All the paintings are in acrylic created using an airbrush. The artist has also showcased the process of one of the paintings titled ‘Oran’.

“I have mostly made use of warm colours like orange and yellow in my paintings,” said Hamon adding that the paintings required warm colours as the paintings are about Nepal which is a warm country. “If it were Europe, then I would have used some other colour.

“Stencil art gives the sculptures a new presence, free and aimless, which I can fill with my own thoughts and feelings — and maybe that’s why they are ‘Silent Witnesses’,” opined the artist.

“The images are common but the artwork is different,” opined Narayan Bohaju, a BFA student looking at the paintings. “Stencil paintings give a far better impression of the subject than the photos themselves,” he said adding that the colour combination and posturing was perfect.

The exhibition is on till April 24.