Sriya Singh

As a child I always loved colors, as an adult I started giving it a meaning – By paining different moods, expressions, thoughts and the dilemmas of human mind and emotions! When I look back at the paintings I made as a kid, I feel I was a different person then – Isn’t it true for all of us? Don’t we feel that, “Once, we have been there?”
I paint because I feel “Painting is freedom”; “It makes me alive”. Sometimes a canvas says much more than what words can express. There are of course various mediums to express yourself, however, the way paintings translate your inner voice is truly amazing because you feel lighter showing a bit of your soul to the outside world. It’s a connection just like writing poetry – You write because there is something inside you that urges you to write, same way there is something buried in the subconscious that struggles hard to come out – the medium can be anything and it depends on you, which one you embrace and choose.

What/who inspired the work?

I don’t have a plan, when I hold a brush. I just want to flow with my thoughts and am surprised sometimes to look at the outcome and I hope you too would be :) Remember, as kids how we used to see forms in the cloud randomly and even today we see it whe...

Masters of Arts - M.A. in English Literature (Gold Medalist), BFA

Solo exhibition on paintings at Lamakaan (Hyd,India) in the year 2013.