Paintings…

Color brings energy; it has a life of its own. Given a chance it can explode on a can­vas and be bril­liant and vibrant.

These are some of my paint­ings span­ning the past 9 years. In a way, I dis­cov­ered the artist in me, because of these paint­ings. Today I like to bring a new depth into the pic­ture and try inno­v­a­tive tech­niques– like a slight mod­ern twist using the age old tra­di­tional Tan­jore style-or adding 3D relief work, using var­i­ous sub­stances– plas­ter of paris, ceramic pow­der, chalk pow­der, twine, paper bits, news­pa­per pieces, glue or epoxy compounds. I have even brought in every­day ingre­di­ents from my kitchen into paint­ings! The options are end­less really…

There is intri­cate work­man­ship involved in such paint­ings, be it in the prepa­ra­tion of the can­vas, the enhance­ment of the jew­elry or the use of gold foil for dec­o­ra­tion, but the out­come is such a richly elab­o­rate paint­ing, that it is worth the extra effort.

Hav­ing no for­mal art train­ing, I have slowly taught myself how to trans­late my cre­ative ideas and thoughts onto paper. Works of artists from my cul­tural her­itage of India and the West have always been inspir­ing and refresh­ing. The Hindu God ‘Gane­sha’ is my true inspi­ra­tion and you might find a small Gane­sha some­where in each of my paint­ings.