SOLO

exhibition

"Cities tell me stories, I listen to them with my eyes and express them with my hands."

I am an artist and an experimentalist at heart. I love to experiment with art style, medium and the tools I use. I have worked on traditional oils on canvas, acrylics on canvas to my own unique mediums- photographic chemicals on bromides (which I call photo-paintings) and oil and acrylic on x-ray films.

Chicago skyline during sunset from Adler Planetarium and Museum Campus area. Beautiful vibrant colors of the sky behind the buildings reflecting on the water surface.

My work includes hundreds of paintings in different mediums and styles with themes ranging from nature to different art forms to ancient Hindu gods and goddesses.

A BUSSY STREET OF NEW YORK

Acrylic

$3,500

I am influenced with New York Streets,during my recent visits to U.S and i did this in acrylics,using vibrant colors in impressionistic style. Textures added with the help of different combs
.A New York City street is not like a street anywhere else in America. It is more frenetic, more teeming, mor

Having lived in rustic Himalayan regions for forty years, one of my most recurring painting themes is Himalayan landscapes and nature in both impressionistic and abstract styles. However, now I propose to exhibit my more recent love towards cities, through my cityscapes.

In the last decade or so, I have been travelling around the world.

In the last decade or so, I have been travelling around the world, living substantial times in cities in US and India with my children, and that's when my companionship with cities started. Cities make me feel awed with the tall buildings, colorful billboards, traffic and busy people.

Integrating nature – rain, birds into places with no space for nature, and adding warm colors to the otherwise neutral tones of the buildings, are some of my favorite ways of bringing life and character to my city paintings.

To me, both Himalayas and buildings are trying to reach the skies, while one does it in the cool solitude, the other are vibrant societies. Cities show me stories in every person's face and every building's skin – sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometime funny, sometimes silly, but none of them stop or stare. Looking at them, I keep thinking if cities are places to make life or if they are places that are missing life.

Cities show me stories in every person's face and every building's skin – sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometime funny, sometimes silly, but none of them stop or stare.

I try and find answers for such thoughts through my paintings. Integrating nature – rain, birds into places with no space for nature, and adding warm colors to the otherwise neutral tones of the buildings, are some of my favorite ways of bringing life and character to my city paintings.

This work has been selected and on show at STUDIO MONTCLAIR IN JURED SHOW,along with otherworks
I am influenced with New York Streets, during my recent visits to U. S and I did this in acrylics, using vibrant colors in impressionistic style. Textures added with the help of different comb

The style of my paintings is a mixture of both traditional and modern approaches.

I used many types of tools and techniques that I have developed over the years to give expressiveness to my paintings. Most of these are oil on canvas that are made using traditional tools like palette knife and some of my own unique tools such as coconut leaves, single edge blades, hair combs, broom sticks etc. This use of different tools give an explosive texture to these impasto paintings.