My Art
This article is a response to what I feel about my own paintings and since life and art go hand in hand, my writings and art express nothing but myself!
To catch a fleeting moment of life in painting is like grabbing the passing breeze in your palm. You just feel it and float with it. There remains very little scope of analyzing. Just feel it’s presence and it’s being there for a while.
My recent works speak of some moments and some glimpses from life, some beautiful memories and feelings. These moments might not be eventful happenings but significant moments that make life colourful and cheerful and sharpen your sensibility. And that is possible with children or people who see life with a child’s eye. The joy of creating a mud house for a child is as good as making his own house decorated with cloth flags, twigs and flowers!
The joy of running through the lush green fields, the bright mustard flowers peeping through the greens, the joy of watering a plant, the joy of feeding grains to birds of fishes”. are good enough reasons to fill life with excitement.
The joy of holding a flower and then the butterfly or a bee hovering over it, the joy of holding light in your hand (candle), the joy of eating mangoes on a summer afternoon, or the joy of just sipping tea with leisure”. are some beautiful and memorable moments and are inseparable from you.
The pleasant amalgamation of the aesthetics of these moments and the various forms, textures and colours create a fairy tale and a kaleidoscopic world in my works.
My working on terracotta plates or earthen “taavdis” has been a different experience as compared to working on paper or canvas. The circular format and the smooth and hard texture of the plate have been interesting and challenging to work on. When I start a work, there emerge unidentified forms and colours and flutter before my minds eyes. They float in the air until I give them place on my work surface and my creative journey starts. There are various juxtapositions and combinations of ideas and happenings and the techniques of applying colours, textures and forms that finally take their respective places when my work leads to completion.
My works are followed by my inner urge to express and celebrate some simple but wondrous moments of life!
What stayed with you?
A line that lingered, a feeling, a disagreement. Great comments are as valuable as the original piece.