Vortex Painting

I draw my inspiration from the natural world and my travels in India. My style is spontaneous and instinctive and my canvases have a physicality that is primal, and three-dimensional. My art emanates energy, joy, and exuberance. I pour huge amounts of paints on canvas, allowing colors to run free and wild. Colors collide, create streams and passages, new palettes are born; I wield neither brush nor knife, bringing their flow to a halt by tilting the canvas in various directions, sometimes using my bare hands. It is a physical process where layer by layer, I build up an almost corporeal structure for the painting, thickening the pigments to allow them texture and a physicality that is almost sculptural. The depth builds resonance and shapes, seen like a kaleidoscope, an evocation of projected images and dreamscapes. There is something trance-like about these imaginings, an other-worldliness that transcends the ordinary and every day. “The world, for me, is a kaleidoscope – a treasure-house of images tumbling into each other, colors spilling, merging, fading, gushing into infinite forms, revealing infinite possibilities. Art for me is not a pursuit but a life practice. Mostly, I work during inspired moments and see myself as a co-creator, where the spirit of a moment and the colors together in a creative production....blending the metaphoric and the concrete, the symbolic and the real, the personal with the cosmic.”