Happy New Year 2025
Wishing all a Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year 2025As blank canvas to a painting, may this year be one of exploration and possibilities on all levels
Madras Art Weekend’s Spotlight on the South
December 10, 2024 Exhibited my artworks at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai for Madras Art Weekend’s Spotlight on the South art show for emerging and established artists of the south. Happy to have two of my artworks find a home with a collector in Chennai. Thanks to the wonderful team of Madras Art Weekend for putting […]
Sangamam at Bangalore International Centre
November 10, 2024 Displayed my artworks at The Bangalore International Center recently as part of Sangamam Hubba by the Shibulal Family Philanthropies. The hubba showcased many of the the rich folk traditions of Karnataka through the various performances of the day from Mysore theatre’s Puppet show, Dollu kunitha and brilliant folk songs and dances. Happy […]
Original Painting
October 4, 2024 Latest original painting developed from a recent idea.In this painting I wanted to show a young, teenage boy helping his grandmom make pickles. The bright shirt with a gaming controller print gives a contemporary setting to the context. Having the grandmom around to guide him is not just an opportunity for bonding, […]
Commissions going to the US this year.
July 4, 2024 A) Sunlit Reverie, Oil on Canvas Latest commission off to Delaware, USA 🙂 My collector wanted to commission some artworks of her daughter. She really liked this side profile pic of her, taken on her ballet recital, with the sunlight falling on her creating a play of colors. The little girl was […]
Vasanta Chitra Sambrama
May 25, 2024 A wonderful learning experience as the director and participating artist of Vasanta Chitra Sambrama Art camp organized by Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan along with Infosys Foundation Bangalore in April 2024. 12 enthusiastic and talented city artists got together to celebrate spring in Bangalore in their unique styles and perspectives. We went to Cubbon […]
Painting from life
March 4, 2024 Had an interesting time organising live drawing and painting sessions at Lahe Lahe, Indira Nagar and at Cubbon Park along with my artist friend Megha. Finding models, coordinating the space, lighting and more was a good challenge apart from the learning that working from life itself brings. Drawing/ painting from life is […]
India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale, 2023
December 19, 2023 Extremely honoured to be selected to participate in the first ever India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale organised by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. 150 artworks of 75 artists from across India were selected for the event inaugurated by the PM of India, Shri Narendra Modi. It was an absolute […]
“Coffee with A slice of life”, Oil on Canvas
August 6, 2023 Sometimes simple, slice of life moments have beauty in them and more so one that I see around me in Bangalore cafes so often! 🙂And while I usually paint from my own photo references, this one was inspired from a copyright free source. Modified it quite a bit to add my own […]
Charcoal workshop at The Forum Art Gallery, Chennai
May 8, 2023 Explored the versatile medium of charcoal with 10 enthusiastic students! Ranging from ages 10 -70 years they showed that age indeed is not a barrier to learning something new! Most of them had never worked with charcoal before. And what a wonderful gallery setting for this at The Forum Art Gallery, Chennai. […]
