Tree in a sunny day

Sometimes when I close my eyes I see a bright red mixed with magenta and Indian yellow forming a beautiful round ball of fire. And then I see it filtering its way through the ripe green leaf colour. 

When this mixture of fire ball passes through the trees so gently and peacefully, it feels so good to be alive. 

I feel like nothing can go wrong.

Nature is a loving mother and a violent enemy at the same time. 

We enjoy the calmness by stretching ourselves long under the shade of a tree on a beautiful calm day. And this same nature can wipe away homes, people and land through her elements of hurricane, tsunami, volcano eruptions or an earth quake.

I guess the uncertainty of mother nature is the same reason why we believe in the certainty of that calmness of a sunny day.

Everyday there is a riot of colours that bounce in front of us. Most of the colours we miss out on because we are too busy.

So next time you see a sunny day, look at the tiny ray of light that has filtered its way through the leaves and other beauties.

Painting Details:

Date of creation :January 2014

Medium - Special Paper

Media - Acrylic done with knife

Size -17 inch (W) x 12 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request

Roses against the blue

This is another painting done as part of a series of knife paintings in January this year (2014).

I like to look at the blue sky. I spent my entire childhood in Dubai where the sun is always up. My school had a huge open playground (maidan). The sun would beat directly  upon us. During those hot days the clear blue sky would seem so endless. I would stretch out my hand as if trying to be ignorant of the truth of how vast and wide the sky truly is. 

Anyone who has stood directly under the sun during the hottest month will know how exactly difficult it is. 

As a child and now as well I like roses of all colours.There were no flowers in the hot vast playground in my school. But there were many roses in the playground of my mind.

I used to see these beautiful red roses as part of that vast, ever demanding, clear blue sky.

A thought of calmness is what settled within me when I had finished this painting. 

Hope you get to feel an emotion you hold close to on calm days as well.

Painting Details:

Date of creation :January 2014

Medium - Special Paper

Media - Acrylic done with knife

Size -17 inch (W) x 12 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request

From within the Storm

The book of Exodus found in the Old Testament of the Bible records the journey made by the Israelite's to the promised land (Canaan).They start the journey under the leadership of Moses. As the people leave the land of Egypt where they were slaves for many years, there comes a point when they are faced with the Red Sea in front of them. They become faint of heart when they begin to think that there is no way to cross the big sea before them. ( this was before the time of bridges etc).

So the people begin to cry out because of their remorse. Moses who hears this loud wailing is broken at heart and speaks to God asking Him to lead them further.

God does answer Moses. 

Moses is asked by God to strike the Red Sea with his walking stick. And the sea divides into two, opening a clear pathway for the Israelite s to walk on foot.

I know this story from a very young age.It has always interested me to see in my colour's eye what a wonderful scene the divided sea would have been. 

While doing my knife painting series, I was tempted to paint out this scene. I chose not to paint the divided sea.Rather I drew the Red Sea at the beginning few seconds when the water was collected and an inner storm blew forth from within showing a violent sea that would soon be tamed.

Painting Details:

Date of creation :January 2014

Medium - Special Paper

Media - Acrylic done with knife

Size -17 inch (W) x 12 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request

Sea boat

When I lived in Chennai I Ioved going to the beach and looking out into the sea. At a far distance the outline of a boat would be seen. I enjoyed these few trips. My memory has few other beaches around the world too. I rememeber the beach at kanyakumari, kovalam, Dubai, kochi, mahabalipuram, florida, the Dead Sea etc.

Every one of them boldly speaks of their own uniquenss.

Some people might joke at you claiming the sea is after all just a body of water and the beach a lump-some amount of sand. This is absolutely wrong! 

I am sure the beach-lovers who are reading this now will totally agree with me that each beach and its sea are lovers of a first kind.

There are no two same sea boats (as per title).

This painting is part of my series of knife paintings. Its a nostalgia of all the beaches I have been to and look forward to go to once again.

Painting Details:

Date of creation :January 2014

Medium - Special Paper

Media - Acrylic done with knife

Size -17 inch (W) x 12 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request

Roses in the Green bush

Roses in the green bush is part of a series of knife painting's done by me during the month of January (2014).

I am often asked if i do an exact duplication of what i see in front of me? My answer is - No.

I paint remembering all the roses I have seen in my entire life up to date. This leaves me with fast, loud and over joyed roses that have popped from within the green bushes of life.

I hope you enjoy this painting as much as I enjoyed seeing it evolve.

Painting Details:

Date of creation :January 2014

Medium - Special Paper

Media - Acrylic done with knife

Size -17 inch (W) x 12 inch (H)

Sale Status : Available

Price : On request