Raj Maji

I started painting when I was 5 years old. At the age of 12 I was able to handle watercolor and oil colors proficiently under the guidance of Chandrasekhar N. a renowned and accomplished artist of India. Later I joined DMS Fine Art Academy for my BFA and then MVA. Then I moved to Mumbai, the hub of Art in India and settled. In between around 10 years I worked in the field of media and animation and worked as a faculty in Zee Institute of Creative Art, Mumbai for 8 years.
I always tried to express my emotions towards life and truth through my paintings and experimented to depict it through the language of art. I observe everything around me and try to portray what appeals me with loosely used brushstrokes. I love to use watercolor, oil and acrylic but sometime work with pigments.
Some of my works basically deal with Indian aesthetics which is evident from the economy of lines used and simplicity of expression. Sometime the paintings display a subtle understanding of spiritualism and offer a bridge between realism and abstraction (rational and irrational world / tangible and the intangible world). I emphasize on Indian principles making extensive use of Indian motifs. What I try to express is 'Navarasa', the nine expressions.

MVA from DMS Fine Art Academy, Mysore, India.

BFA from DMS Fine Art Academy, Mysore, India.

2022 (May) Group Art Show "Muse Sublime" at Nehru Centre AC Art Gallery, Mumbai

2021 (Jan) Online Art Exhibition "Chitra Santhe" by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath Gallery.

2020 (Feb) Group Art Show “Aura Aesthetica” at Exhibition Hall, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India.

2019 (Sept) Solo Art Exhibition "Enamored Ecstasy" at Trident Hotel Art Gallery, Mumbai India.

2019 (May) Group Art Exhibition "The Lustre of Life" at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai India.

2019 (Feb) Group Art Show “Sublime Confluence II” at Exhibition Hall, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India.

2018 (Dec) Two men show "Anwesh" at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai, India.

2018 (Nov) Group Art show “Golden Dreams” in Notibinodini Art Gallery, Kolkata, India.

2018 (April) Group Art Show "Kala Sankalana" at Kasthuri Sreenivasan Art Gallery & Museum, Coimbatore.

Group Art Show “Sublime Confluence” at Exhibition Hall, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India in Dec 2017.

Group Art Show “Abhyantara II” at Exhibition Hall, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India in Dec 2016.

Duo Art Show “Abhyantara” in Atelier Art and Cultural Centre, Pondicherry, India in Oct-Nov 2015.

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