About the artist

Hi. I am twenty two years old and from New Delhi, India. Every Sunday, I manage to blur the world’s madness out with a cup of coffee in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. Most of my paintings fall under the spiritual and cosmic-fantasy genre. My over-active imagination refuses to limit itself to the mundane reality of our times. I look for creativity, spirit and life in every person and situation that I come across. So, I spend most of my free time painting, writing and simply observing the world around me while contrasting it with the one inside my head. I am particularly fascinated by the Northern Lights and would love to visit someday. (Feel free to send tickets in case you love my work!)

PS: The blog is new and I am still figuring my way around it. So, please excuse the technical glitches 🙂

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Counting Stars

“Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.”

-Bryan Lee O’Malley, Lost At Sea.

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The Floating City of Venice

“At the bridge I stood
lately in the brown night.
From afar came a song:
as a golden drop it welled
over the quivering surface.
Gondolas, lights, and music —
drunken it swam out into the twilight.

My soul, a stringed instrument,
sang to itself, invisibly touched,
a secret gondola song,
quivering with iridescent happiness.
Did anyone listen to it?”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Backyard Bliss

Today’s artwork is all about making peace with yourself, being proud of who you are and being comfortable in your own skin. It celebrates the joy of stealing a few moments from the day and spending some time in your own company. It reflects the serenity that surrounds you when you allow yourself to pause, ruminate and recuperate, when you re-discover the strength to embrace your fears again, when you gently pick yourself up and decide to move on.

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Where the path curves and there’s a garden, Brinkley and I will be waiting.

This painting is truly special and was made right after I finished watching You’ve Got Mail for the first time. The movie ended with Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly embracing each other happily but my mind was still stuck on the previous scene. The lump in my throat was refusing to budge after I’d heard Tom Hanks say, “If only”. I had to let it out somehow. So, I caught hold of the nearest canvas and ended up making this while Remember by Harry Nilsson played in the background.

Canvas size: 29.7×42.0 cm

Medium: Acrylic

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Just a tiny speck in the universe.

I made this painting on New Year’s Eve last year. The inspiration behind this artwork was the fascinating, shimmering display of Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) over the Norwegian sky. I remember reading about them for the first time in my class eleventh Physics book. Haven’t quite gotten over them since then 🙂

Canvas size: 29.7 c.m. x 42 c.m.

Medium: Acrylic.

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