chandigarh painter designer and sculptor shiv singh died at the age of 77 at a private hospital in panchkula in the wee hours of friday another huge loss for the tricity after the recent death of rock garden creator nek chand singh a heart patient who was suffering from diabetes was admitted to the hospital following a heart attack on tuesday he is survived by his wife gizela singh and son yasvin the attack was unexpected he used to have breathing problems sometimes but we never linked it to his heart problem i was staying with him in the hospital and came home on thursday night around 430am doctors called me to inform that he had passed away said gizela the family has decided to hold the funeral at the sector 25 cremation ground at 12 noon on sunday after singhs son yasvin who lives in frankfurt germany arrives he is trying to book his tickets i am expecting him to reach by saturday said gizela singh who was born in hoshiarpur in 1938 studied at punjab college of arts first in shimla and then in chandigarh from 1958 to 1963 he taught art at sainik school kapurthala from 1963 to 1968 he retired as professor of arts in 1996 from government home science college chandigarh his works are displayed in different parts of chandigarh including punjab kala bhawan in sector 16 kala gram and government museum and art gallery sector 10 in december a book shiv singhs world of art was releasedgovernment missing even as the city lost an eminent artist the haryana government and panchkula authorities did not find time to pay condolences to the family till 3pm a toi team was at the house of shiv singh in sector 6 of panchkula but no officials had come neighbours said they had told the panchkula mla about the demise in the morning deputy commissioner vivek atray when contacted said he just came to know about the death of shiv singh i was not aware as i was visiting poet sardar anjum shiv singh was a close friend i will be visiting the family soonlove for black black was shiv singhs favourite colour and dominated his wardrobe he thought that black was his colour and always bought clothes in it the colour had become a part of his life said gizela singh shiv singh believed that black absorbs everything and never reflects anything but it was not just black orange too was part of his wardrobe he took orange to be a colour of happiness there always used to be a shade of orange with black these were the two colours he left with when he left his home town hoshiarpur to get formal training in art almost 53 years back said gizelaknow the man chairman of chandigarh lalit kala akademi from 1999 till 2005 founder member of punjab lalit kala akademi chandigarh member of lalit kala akademi new delhi from 1972 to 1982 worked very closely with dr