"Color of Intimacy: Pursuit in Alchemic Tantrism Series-4" Painting

I have been working for more than twenty years with a variety of media including oil pastels, oil on canvas, water color, and mixed media. I born and raised in South of Tamil Nadu, INDIA now I moved to USA and settled there more than 15 years.The nature of my work has undergone vast changes since I began in 1992. I am presently working with ink with metal on handmade paperboard a water-based medium which radically differs from the conventional water colors in terms of texture and technique. Experimenting with diverse themes and formal strategies, during the past few years I have been focusing on the many worlds of South Indian spirituality. While my work belongs to this tantric movement in modern Indian art, I have consciously eschewed certain elite tendencies in the movement, and have shied away from pure geometrism. Instead, I invent shapes and colors with deep emotional value and, in most cases, deliberately invert conventional modes and idioms to arrive at fresh meanings. Critics have, therefore, classed my work as neo - tantric to set it apart from the mainstream tantric work.