Sculpture from the Orsay Museum -Paris 

The understanding of human form can't be more real and sensuous than this. It is just unbelievable that human beings in flesh and blood have achieved such ethereal levels of creativity with just a chisel and hands.

#Orsay Museum # Sculpture  # Paris

Trees

TREES 

( Acrylic on Canvas)

 

The painting is just  an immediate expression of my mind after returning from the hills. While driving to Fagu near Kufri, a small village with a population of 130, there I saw trees with mind boggling colours....bright purples, snow whites, reds and yellows etc. It was a visual treat, a onslaught on the senses that were numbed by the colours of our man made urban landscape. The names of those trees hardly matter( though I remember the days when I used to do well in Landscape design ), but what mattered was finding such brightness, such vividness in the colour pallet. I have hardly done any justice to the visuals that I have seen, but have been able to at least take out some of my excitement on to the canvas. 

Paintings....

This is a Oil painting depicting a small fisherman's boat caught up in a storm. It was probably one of those days when I would start with a blank mind without thinking much what I am going to paint and whether it would be worth showing or it goes to the garbage collector who shouts 'kudawala' and bangs on my rusty metal door every morning
Few times people have asked me why I painted it ....what was I thinking when I thought of this concept(a word obviously and mercilessly exploited by folks who are all architects and they never overcame the jury sessions of their college education and now have the word printed on their tonsils too)....though I don't know if it was a sarcasm or they were actually appreciating as I have failed to decode the facial expressions into words and sentences..I would always tell them that 'I wanted to paint a boat'....isn't that so simple an answer ...

My friends always have pointed out that I always end up painting eyes. Black, blue, red, brown and all colours of the palette..... open eyes, closed eyes, no eyes .. but why such an emphasis to eyes...don't you have anything else to paint. I say to them that eyes in itself are one of the most complete elements of the human body and its probably the most expressive medium gifted to us for communicating....I have heard it many a times that what words can't express eyes do and when eyes fail to express I don't know what or who does....probably neighbours (pun intended).....eyes say a million things and lips hide a million.

Then my friends asked me again why don't you show a complete face..always a half or partially hidden one. I said to them that isn't one half of the face enough to express and also I like viewers to guess what the other half of the face is doing..... lets say I want to give some room to assumptions too....let it find some more refuge in my paintings when the whole world is fueled by assumptions

The Buddha (Oil painting)

Eyes(in Charcoal and paper)

Girl-1(in Charcoal and Paper)

Girl-2(in Charcoal and Paper)

Peace and Chaos(Oil painting)

OIL PAINTING

 

THE UNION

The oil paining depicts the eternal existence of the male and the female, the power centre, the Shiv-Shakti duality,which is the fundamental energy of every creation of our known Universe.This painting tries to portray transcendent joy.The pro-creative power of the male form can never be formed without the power of Shakti- the female form.

Probably in the journey of creating this painting I could experience this powerful notion which took me away from quite a number of questions that used to arise in my mind and created a sense of freedom and created a happier me.

DIGITAL WORKS

Composition with Squares using 10kinds of colours such as Oil paints, water colours, enamel paints etc on canvas