Nuclear Family

Nuclear Family
Oil on Ceramic.
From Left: Adara, Amarillio, Amaranda, Areta

Adara - A close up!

A whirlwind long and extended weekend of painting. I did my own painting getaway by not getting away from home! I gave myself a stay-cation so I could just paint. What's more, these are just few of the plates from all that I painted. Wait and watch for more! 

Some surprising changes with the florist! Things have changed and how! The other day I dropped in quickly to buy a bouquet for a friend, whose party I was attending.He started matcjing colours and suggesting what I should paint. When I told him it was not for painting but for gifting, he almost looked offended! What a change from how things were! He is slowly turning into my flower consultant - as far as what he thinks should make its way onto my canvas!

I came away smiling!!!:):) 

Bahaar

Bahaar. Acrylic on plate.

I have just two acrylic tubes which are fast drying and I had to use them. I left the whole set somewhere but had brought these two to outline two works. Since I have no other colour I couldn't, mix any values and decided to do something different. I have called this Bahaar as am singing that Raaga these days . This will be my second and last acrylic on ceramic .  This was more an exercise to keep in touch with painting lest I stop painting altogether!

Happy New year 2016

Year another artful year ended to start another... . 2015 led me to galleries, exhibitions, selection in contests and sales. I also embarked on my ceramics journey. Will I continue in ceramics..I know not! However, I am thinking of altering my style a bit . I have started experimenting a bit but time shall say if I culminate in something or not.
Till then, I post this picture  from a Delhi wall, where my sold plates compete against other artefacts! A nice feeling indeed!!

Charisma

Oil on ceramics.
I picked up a single rose on my morning walk. The florist is now my friend. He has seen his flowers on my canvas, from a picture on my cellphone and has decided to be cordial to me. I painted this yellow beauty with simple but bold charisma and filled up the sides witha lively border.

People often ask me why my motifs have asymmetry as a recurring feature. I ask them, " Have you ever seen complete, geometrical symmetry in nature? Leave it loose; enigmatic, flattering, waiting to be enhanced. "

Gerbera

OIL ON CERAMIC. SOLD.
Painted from a flower off a huge bouquet of blazing red Gerberas got for my birtthday,  this is now going to adorn another friend's cabinet!

Bageshri

Another one in the series I decided to call 'Ragini', a female Raga.
Am hoping to exhibit a few of these in an upcoming show. Another reason is that I bought a dozen plates so I either paint them or use them as dishes!!:)

Sohini

A plate yet again. For those who came in late, I've been having an affair with plates of late. For those who were already here, hark! Do not assume am doing them as they are an easy solution to my creative urges. Believe me you, a plate is quite an act of bravado. I have backpain everytime I finish one, as doing one entails too much detailed working and I usually have a loose style of working. It's an even bigger hassle to pack off sold plates as they are highly breakable and need careful carriage and transportation. All said and done here is my nth plate and the reason why I call it Sohini is because that's the Indian Raga I have humming of late!

Hues - filled plates.

 Siennna

Syringa



 

 Valencia

 

A few more plates. These plates look good but do not fulfill my artistic cravings fully. The delight of applying colour to canvas and sliding the knife up and down is a different experience and has its own beauty!  However, they are good for a quick fix craving! Can be compared safely to a small cube of chocolate as opposed to a chocolate mousse pastry!

 

How many of us actually give vent to creativity. Do we not fill our time with television, movies and empty chatter. How beautiful instead to pen afew lines or draw a few things. Try it! Meanwhile, a poem penned by me few days back :       

 

 

Dystopian Heaven

 

The empty coffers were painted gold
The hollowed heart was filled with bold
The ugly town was lived with beauty...
The broken cottage filled with bounty.

The hopeless corridor hailed for the walls
The dark room praised for its black calls
The box of coins treated as the chest
The worst kings thought to be the best.

A trail of horror lived without tremor
A life of sorrow lived with humour
With Hell lived as the daily haven
Made into an enviable Heaven.

Adonia

 

Oil on Ceramic
SOLD

 

 

Beauty is the deadliest thing that makes one alive! But is beauty in art about aesthetics? I think not. Ugly is most often beautiful, when presented artfully. I have gone through a lot of thinking. Representing reality in abstract form is an intervention. It needs intellectual stimulation. Thankfully, inspite of defined borders, art can be seamless. What is it that is striking in an artwork. It is the differentiating element. Something that intrigues, disturbs and needles the mind. Art is not about aesthetics but maybe the reason behind the lack of it in an artwork

Here's a poem I wrote about the duality of life using my life as a metaphor:

 

Die chotomy

 

She who lives everyday
She who dies everyday
She who laughs everyday...
She who cries everyday.

 

The world which admires her
The world which abhors her
The world which seeks her
The world which shuns her.

 

Where is she going
Where is she stopping
Where is her light
Where is her flight.

 

Is she a good angel
Is she a conniving witch
Is her heart of gold
Or is it steely cold. 

Plates

A reluctant foray into painting on plates of a friend at her insistence, led me into a new found love- painting on plates! These two series are on glass quarter plates. Ceramics are to follow:

Series 1: The Feelings Series: Oil on glass plates

Desire

Passion

Hope

                                                                                                          

                                                                                                 
Series 2:  Fragrance . Oil on Glass plates

Helianthus

Petalon

           

Rosa