Synergy of Senses Painting

My name is Mala Raj Srivastava . I was born in the holy city named Varanasi. According to ancient history, Varanasi was founded by Lord Shiva. In the Rigveda this city is reffered as the name “Kashi”, this name is mentioned in Skanda Purana , where in one verse: Lord Shiva says “ the three world form one city of mine, and Kashi is my Royal palace therein. Along with this my city is big centre of Artistic activities, it is famous for weaving muslin and silk fabrics, and these activities I always saw in my childhood which left obvious effect on me, so these “ Alankar” I use in my works always…. Secondly Kashi is big centre of music activities, Padamvibhushan Kishan Maharaj, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Pandit Samta Prasad , Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar these all big names belong to Varanasi, so my childhood was spent among the laps of these great people. As I was fortunate of being the daughter of Pandit Kishan Maharaj ,I was having very keen intrest towards music and paintings as well from my childhood, because so many painters use to come at my place to create lots of different art at my home too. My father was also a great painter, sculptor and musician, infact he was an all time jack person in many field, so I was influenced with his personality badly and I tried to copy him as much I could from that time specially in art and all those great artists who created different art pieces in front of my infant mind they left over their impression too. Nowadays I live in Delhi , capitol town of India, which is a big centre of every artistict activities of every field. I get opportunity here to visit museums, theater, historical monuments and music concerts to fulfill my hunger of Art. I feel that my art is totally inclined towards contemporary conceptual topic with an effect of all this vast and modern exposer. I have a very supportive family including my daughter ,son in law, husband,and close relatives, they all encourage me to go ahead in my field , but above all support of my husband only helped me to complete my B.F.A. and M.F.A. regularly even after marriage. My hubby leave me free to create my conceptual art , which is not at all made by any commercial interest but in-spite of this he wants me to grow or fly as I want to ….I feel that this makes a lot of difference in my creativity because I have not any boundary line.