Mangalore: Over 30 paintings were exhibited at the well known Mahalasa Arts School in city on Friday by the 30 students undergoing training under the guidance of Principal Babu Rao.

Deputy collector of excise in Mangalore, Gorge Pinto inaugurating the show told the audience that it was the duties of the society to encourage arts, paintings, landscapes, sculpture and the like which represent what is going on in the minds of people all the time. He added that we never express our feelings even under duress but artists do not belong to such a category of mute spectators and they are keen in expressing what they feel in everyday life on their canvass or on rocks or wood or sand and such other easily voluble material.

 Pinto appreciated what Mahalasa Arts School has been doing all these years in rising new and young artist who can express a lot when others remained mute. Pinto wanted the Art lovers in every city to encourage artists to stand on their own legs and express their feelings fearlessly, by buying there paintings and other products which can be put on the walls of at home or decorate their rooms. The exhibition of Art works of the 30 artists is limited to 3 days only at the venue.