Naina Maithani Kulkarni

Colors, Hues, Tints, Shades - all these words seemed to have been acting on my senses more than ever, before unfolding themselves in all their glory in what I believe, in no better a setting than in wonderful Hoi An, Vietnam.

Having an intrinsic ability and potential to revise the color wheel on a canvas using simple techniques was just something that I have been aspiring ever since childhood but which was ever so easily shrugged away.

It was almost a dream come true when in 2011 I met my Guru and a local artist Mr.Tran Viet Son popularly called Mr. Son or simply the Crazy "Monkey" as per the Vietnamese Lunar Calendar. It was he who transformed this love for painting into a reality. Ever since then, I have found my heart, mind & soul immersed deep within the canvases, peering over brushes & peeping deep myself at 57,TRAN PHU.

With each painting and with each season I seem to discover within my self a new beginning which I want to primarily dedicate to all those beautiful memories, images, sights and sounds of phố cổ Hoi An in abstract art and the journeys to follow to various others parts of the globe.

This page is a mere platform where I seek to translate all of those aspects in my lifes' journey, on a canvas wishi...