Sweet home Painting

S Jayaraj was born in the Southern part of India in Tirunelveli,Tamil Nadu in April 1962. With a stroke from a brush and a line with his pencil, S Jayaraj spells magic.S Jayaraj is an incredible versatile human kind. Jayarajs repertoire of work is multifaceted as well as multidimensional in terms of medium. He believes that the material of expression is not an issue of importance. No matter what medium he works in, Jayaraj always brings a unique and fresh perspective to his artwork. S Jayaraj was both a dreamer and a doer from his childhood days. The taunts he experienced in his school days gave vent to his artistic expression. He then drew sketches, cartoons and caricatures of schoolmates. Thus the artist in him was born at a very tender age of 8.The artist is fluent in a variety of media from small pen and inks to large canvasses painted in media like oil on canvas and acrylic on canvas. Working in charcoal and pastels stand close to Jayarajs heart and he loves to bring out the beautiful expressions through this medium. He has a sensitive touch to portraits done in ink and he loves to work in black and white medium through his pen and ink drawings. He uses small thin strokes, which have a scratchy effect, and creates the required depth. He is very innovative with the way he uses lines and scribbles. He firmly believes that the black and white medium is best equipped to capture certain moods and expressions, which also furnishes an ethnic look to the artwork. But he is equally facile with graphite, watercolours and coloured sketches. The same kind of deftness is revealed in his paintings too. Jayaraj is mesmerised by the rural life of India and has always well captured and brought them brilliantly alive on his canvasses. He has drawn several poignant portraits of rural folk and sketched their lives and lifestyles. He loves to bring the realities of the rural people, their mundane lives and poor livelihoods on his canvas. Jayaraj does not work only in deeds but he works in his dreams as well. He thinks and visualizes and spends good enough time on thinking deeply about a subject, its meaning and relevance, the colours, composition and designs before setting his artistic hand on the canvas. He says that he paints from his sub-conscious, which means that he spends his conscious hours feeding the sub-conscious. He expresses that what comes out on the canvas is straightway related to his inner most emotions.