Society of Indian Marine Artists (SIMA)

An Exhibition of Paintings was held by the Society of Marine Artists at the Balgandharva Kala Dalan from 1-3 Dec 2024. The Exhibition was inaugurated by ADG Vijay Chafekar (Retd), former Coast Guard Commander, Western Region who lit the traditional lamp along with other dignitaries like Capt Anand Dixit, President IMF, Mr Shailesh Sonawane and… Read more

An Exhibition on Marine Art was held by the Society of Marine Artists at the Balgandharva Kala Dalan from 12 to 14 Mar 2024. This included a Special Event Watercolour Painting Demo by noted artist Shri Shailesh Sonawane on the inaugural day. The Exhibition was inaugurated by Cmde Rajan Vir (Retd), President Emeritus IMF at… Read more

Eight artists of SIMA had visited the National Defence Academy and interacted with NDA cadets of the Arts Club. Mr Sailesh and Capt Praful had given demos of painting to the motivated cadets for whom this was a unique opportunity to learn the basics of artistic painting. Col Ritesh and Cdr Rekha, the Officers’in-Charge of… Read more

An exhibition of seascapes and other paintings created by artists of the Society of Marine Artists (under the aegis of the Indian Maritime Foundation) was inaugurated at the Raja Ravi Varma Art Gallery, Ghole Road, Shivajinagar on 09 May 2023 by Mr Praful Talera, CEO Dynamics Logistics. The inaugural ceremony commenced with the lighting of… Read more

The Annual seascapes exhibition of the Society of Indian Marine Artists (SIMA) was held at Pune’s prestigious Balgandharva Kala Dalan from 5 to 7th Feb. 38 members of Sima displayed 80 paintings in oil on canvas, acrylic and water colours. The response and the enthusiasm this year of members, as well as their families and… Read more

Paint Party organized and conducted by our SIMA member Debasree Dey at Koregaon Park last evening. Cmde Rajan Vir, Mr Vikram Nabar, Ms Jayanti Shetty and Ms Ashraf Jaffri from SIMA participated. It was a well-organized fun event, which was enjoyed by everyone. Read more

The Society of Indian Marine Artists (SIMA) , held its annual exhibition of seascapes at Balgandharva Kala Dalan at Pune for three days from 8ht Feb to 10th Feb. Mr Atul Khanna , a well known Industrialist of Pune, inaugurated the Exhibition as the chief guest . 52 seascapes, painted by 23 members of SIMA,… Read more

The annual exhibition of seascape paintings by the members of the Society of Indian Marine Artists ( SIMA ), a sister organization to the IMF established in 2001, was held for three days in February 2016, at the recently renovated and modernized art gallery in central Pune, the Balgandharva Kala Dalan. 45 fine seascapes done… Read more

After a gap of two years, SIMA members were again back at Peacock bay at the National Defence Academy in January 16 for their seascapes workshop. Among the participants were all our enthusiastic art stalwarts, including Shailesh Sonawane, Hoshnar Kaikobad, Prateek Tandon and Deepshikha. Shailesh obliged the group by conducting a demo on how to… Read more

The annual Junior SIMA (Society of Indian Marine Artists) exhibition and ‘on the spot’ seascapes painting competition for children, was held in the cool and tranquil ambience of the Empress Garden, Pune on Sunday 22 Nov 15. Forty children, coming from different local schools, took part. The event began with a demonstration by Mr Prateek… Read more

On a bright sunny morning of 27th March 2015 saw 19 SIMA artists participate in the annual SIMA exhibition at Balgandharva Kaladalan, J M road, Members started arriving at 9am for the registration, renewing their membership,and to put up their art works. Fifty paintings and eighteen photographs of seascapes were displayed. The chief guest arrived… Read more

Junior SIMA ‘On-the-spot’ Seascapes Painting Competition was held at Empress Garden, Pune on the 23rd of November. Around 80 Children participated in the competition, which was held in four age-groups. A Maritime Quiz was also held. SIMA member Hina Bhatt gave a live demo of Seascape painting. The judges had a tough time deciding on… Read more