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

                                                                       
                                                                           

Art for Change

My article "Art for Change" was published in the IIMA Alumnus magazine in the Feb 2015 issue. I have written about using art as a behavioral intervention tool in training and engagement in organisations, to help facilitate organisational change.The article draws an analogy between the Plein air tevhnique of painting to the Out Bound Learning 

technique of training , touching upon how art  fosters team spirit and helps build perspectives.

Easter Roundel

Oil on Canvas with palette knives

4" radius approx

This round canvas caught my attention last time I went to buy art stock. Worked on this piece from imagination, which I completed on Easter Sunday. Mean to find an ornate frame for it. 

Flowers have now become so a part of me that they are slowly falling into the rhythm of my life. Do they represent chaos , beauty or diversity I wonder.

Amber

Oil on Canvas with palette knives

10 x 1 inches

A commissioned work, to match an earlier work from my colour series that a friend of mine has on her wall.I quite did this almost in robotic motions. However, I had to make a quick trip to her place to measure the earlier dimensions , so they match this one for sure. 

Antiquity

Art on a plate - an experiment I did at the request of a friend. She almost had to cajole me into doing this. She had these old plates given by her grandmother which she thought she would preserve in artistic memory. After I finally did it- Oil on Ceramic, am mighty pleased with what I have. The shrieks of delight from her made my day. I quite like what I did and maybe can toy with the idea more!