I’m fascinated by the bridging paradoxes and con􏰀licts that life offers, the inner and outer, the conscious and unconscious, the crests and troughs, life lived in action and life lived in head. This has a strong influence, whichever the medium may be, as I embrace this sense of imperfection and tension in most of my works. The subjects are largely autographical, in a sense that I feel, observe, and transform whatever enters my life or whatever I have consciously put myself into and let that experience naturally emerge in my work.
I have always felt an overwhelming connection to people, places and culture of a region and I constantly seek to capture the truth and soul in mundane objects, people, and places as honestly as I can. As a painter I love to experiment and push the boundaries of my creative pursuits every day.
The way light can be depicted in a transparent and loose way is something that completely drew me towards the medium of watercolors, that I feel, is the
most human of all mediums with its innate quality to respond to every dab and stroke, it allows me to express visual impulses on paper. Metaphorically, whatever medium I may work in, the possibilities and the discovery of the medium through the process, is like having a relationship with another living and thriving entity.
Human body and Human condition have fascinated me as far as long as I can remember. Drawing and Painting human flesh and anatomy has been the basis of my creative learning and experimentation. The possibilities of working and experimenting with human figure as a subject are endless.
The biggest inspiration in my life is the insatiable drive and urge to paint every day. It is exactly like the hunger to eat; I feel hungry to paint every day. Perhaps it’s through art that I think I have come the closest in feeling like a mother who is expecting her child. Probably the same feeling when I wake up each morning and the drive to paint and let the emotions out on paper is unbelievable.
I live and work in Dehradun. Uttrakhand