There is a divine quality in beauty that makes us pause, brings us out of our heads, and into the divinity of the experience of the present moment. There are various spaces through which humans connect to this feeling that we refer to as beauty. Even though conditioning can tend to guide our preferences in understanding and realizing beauty, I know this experience of oneness to be universal and also that this space or feeling breeds within it much more than what is understood by the word beauty.

Some find its presence through form, some find it in the presence of others, some experience it through sounds and fragrances, some of us recognize it through serving others whereas some of us flow through this in the stillness within our meditations.

My search in life has always gravitated towards this gentle power and the questions that it raises,  questions that result in looking inward, a process that starts a silent dialogue which creates and informs the work. The questions are often on the nature and experience of space, stillness, harmony, longing and the abyss that they create within which often flows into a feeling of being content or of having arrived, a feeling of oneness, but thankfully, all feelings are temporary and new questions regularly knock on my door. The questions often arrive as words and the answers are always in the form of works and the transformation that they create in my being.

There is no story that I am trying to convey through my works, I know that I do not have much to say through words, I find words and narratives to be limiting when compared to all that can be known by sitting with the horizons, both external as well as internal. There isn't much to comprehend about them, but there is much that can be felt.

Experiencing the works of Kandinsky and Klee made me realize that my questions could be explored and also that the questions are the path that I was searching for. I find a peculiar quality that I feel is shared in the works of V.S. Gaitonde, Rothko, Bach, Monet, Ansel Adams, Hafiz and Zen master Basho, the ability of their works to evoke a sense of space, stillness and awareness. The experience of their works is my education and guiding light.

My process at the moment involve working with ink, oil on canvas and photography in order to explore my questions and observe and share my experiences.

I currently live in and work from Chennai. Although, I feel that my works and processes are deeply influenced by my years of living and working in the forests of Mount Abu, Rajasthan. I was educated mainly in Mount Abu and my few years of living and studying in England, but most of what I feel I can understand, I learnt through my travels and through working in diverse fields of work in different parts of India.

Solo shows

Seasons - Hussain Doshi Gufa, Horwitz gallery, Ahmedabad, India 2018

Reminiscence -Hutheesing Visual arts centre, Ahmedabad, India 2016

Group Shows

Masterpieces - Jahawar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India 2022

Visual dialogue - Canarys National art foundation, Indore, India 2018

The Warehouse group show - Albert Hall, Jaipur, India 2017