“For me, painting is not simply about transferring a subject onto canvas. It is a way of seeing and experiencing the world around me, and of expressing the emotions hidden within it through colour and form. My journey began with portrait painting. While creating portraits from old photographs, I developed a close understanding of faces, expressions, light, and colour. Later, landscape painting gave me the opportunity to work more freely with nature and colour. Gradually, I developed a desire not only to represent what is visible, but also to express the experience felt behind it through painting. This is where my journey into contemporary painting began. In my work, figurative forms and abstract shapes come together. I am deeply drawn to geometric forms, overlapping shapes, textures, and the interaction of colours. At times, a clearly defined figure gradually becomes part of an abstract space. For me, this transformation brings a distinct energy to the painting. In the Musician Ladies series, my particular focus has been on the rhythm, beat, and movement of music. Just as we do not simply hear words when listening to music, but also experience its rhythm, I want the viewer to feel a visual rhythm while looking at my paintings. The female figures, instruments, gestures, and geometric forms become parts of this rhythm. In Moods of Ladies, I have explored the changing emotions, memories, and experiences of women through figurative and abstract forms. In the Buddha series, my interest has been in the relationship between outer unrest and inner peace. Colour is very important to me. Red, yellow, orange, blue, and green are not merely colours; through them, I try to evoke energy, joy, movement, silence, and emotion. My current Bullock Cart Series is connected with Indian rural life and our changing cultural memory. For me, the bullock cart is not merely an object, but a memory of the farmer, labour, the village, and an entire way of life. Through contemporary forms, colour, and abstraction, I am trying to look at this traditional image in a new way. My recent series, “Essence of India,” is an extension of this experience. In this series, I have tried to see India not as a particular place, person, or event, but as a living world of memories, symbols, and experiences. Elements such as Shiva, temples, Tulsi Vrindavan, bells, bullock carts, journeys, and folk life are not merely visual subjects for me. They reflect India’s faith, traditions, movement, collective memory, and the simplicity of life. I have revisited these familiar symbols through my contemporary visual language and expressed them through colour, line, texture, and abstract forms. Through “Essence of India,” my intention is not merely to present Indian culture through its outward appearance, but to evoke the emotional and spiritual experience within it. I hope that viewers may discover in these paintings a memory, an experience, or an emotion connected to their own sense of familiar India. I do not want to confine my art to any one fixed style. For me, every series is a new exploration. My constant endeavour is that a painting should offer the viewer more than simply a beautiful image—that it should leave behind a feeling, a rhythm, a memory, or a new way of seeing.”

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