Places shaped by Dreams: Series

There are certain places that feed our dreams. This is one such. A reality that lost its realism somewhere in the presence of fantasy. Watercolour on ‘Arches Aquarelle’ 140 lbs rough grained paper

Scarlet Dreams

It is good to be back with blogging and to exhibit my paintings after a very long while. I had missed the fun as well as serious activities and discussions in the blog world and the pull of his old habit was too much to resist that I must say I am back. Though I [...]

Beautiful Face, Beautiful Mind : Ashy

Its been a long while. I had started feeling nostalgic about the BFB Series and how everyone liked it. Somewhere down the line things changed and yahoo 360 became unfit for serious blogging and interactions. Circumstances in each ones lives changed and so was it with mine. Work takes the front seat leaving no room [...]

New Beginings

Perhaps this is the first time I have taken a serious look at research in Art myself. A casual chit chat with my old professor of Art History and aesthetics, one cold rainy evening last week at the Mahatma Gandhi University Guest house triggered the process. Or shall I say put me into the ‘strange [...]

The Portrait of Amma, The Hugging Saint, The Divine Spiritual Master.

Presentation of the portrait to Amma on 18-04-2009. _______________________________________For more info on Amma, the Hugging saint : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Amritanandamayi http://www.amma.org/ http://www.amma-europe.org/ ______________________________________________ Title: Amma Medium : Watercolour on Hotpressed paperSize: 7′ x 5′ _______________________________________________

Absence : Pablo Neruda

Absence ~ Pablo Neruda I have scarcely left you when you go in me, crystalline, or trembling, or uneasy, wounded by me or overwhelmed with love, as when your eyes close upon the gift of life that without cease I give you. My love, we have found each other thirsty and we have drunk up [...]

Mirrored image

I tried this style after a very long while. I’m not particularly fond of this because it requires a hell lot of calculations, and believe me, a minute seemingly insignificant stroke placed wrongly, destroys the reflected image completely. After having wasted several sketches, this one finally came through. I didn’t have a good cylindrical mirrored [...]

Glowing Embers

“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.” ~Wassily Kandinsky~ Glowing Embers by David Harris Within the glowing embers of a fire [...]

Presiding over the Doom

There are certain things impossible to reconcile with the settled order of nature. And when such events happen to us we are left with a suspension of disbelief, if it had been a dream or real or somewhere in-between, – a state of delirium. I was about 14 years old and was down with a [...]

The Kids of 360 !!!

“If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won’t have to struggle; we won’t have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall [...]