My current body of thematic body of paintings compare the mental emotion of happiness as a visual entity that I define as fleeting and ephemeral to short-lived garden blooms and continually evolving seasons. The intense colors and variety of textural materials incorporated into the work interact with any light situation to visually "challenge" or create an experience for the viewer that extends beyond the confines of their two-dimensional surfaces.
Impressions of abstract figuration alluding to human forms and the presence of circles that are prominent features in almost all the pieces signify the ongoing human life-cycle, trying phases followed by happy spells in a positive sense and life and rebirth as influenced by my roots from India. Initial inspiration for my current body of work stemmed from observing Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France during an extended visit to Paris and the rest of Europe on different occasions, one such dedicated to studying Painting and French Art History in 1992.
My journey as an artist has evolved over time from a representational background of my childhood and adolescent years to the present phase of abstraction, during which I have developed a significant body of work on the theme of portraying happiness as a visual entity.