Artists of the Week

Pragya Gurung is an Indian Air Force veteran from IIM Lucknow, morphing through the variegated contours of life with efforts and ease, knitting her rich experience with her artistic vision. The journey into the world of art was a serious search within oneself and nature a meditative and intensely reflective body of work. Water colours […]

Venus Sanghvi creates a representation of abstraction and symbol, incorporating her personal everything with spiritual nothingness to form a unique visual language. By working with materials such as sindoor and abir and incorporating the chimes signifying the Bija mantra, she brings a sense of ritualism into her art. There are deeper and often introspective themes

Shruti Goyal is an abstract artist whose work explores the intricacies of human experience, emphasising the intertwining of space, time, memory, and lived moments. Her colour compositions in paintings create a dialogue between the past, present, and fleeting nature of existence by speaking for the visual landscapes where individual and collective history collide. Goyal’s creative

Rajashree Dutta Choudhury, an eminent educator, visual artist, writer, and researcher from Silchar, Assam, India, epitomises the confluence of academic rigour and creative prowess. Holding a Master and Bachelor of Visual Arts in Painting from Assam University, Silchar, she is currently advancing her scholarly pursuits with a PhD at the same institution. Rajashree’s artistic and

The deepest impact on Sanjay Kumar Raj has been, he professes, the experience of having grown up in tender rural climes and having lived amidst nature, observing its elements in all their splendour, from the creativity of the changes of forms and shades, to its softness and nurturing warmth — and then acknowledging the brutal

Artist Babita Das from Kolkata develops the “Rebloom” series, demonstrating her inventiveness and insight amid the chaos by using instinctive, dynamic brushstrokes to capture India’s lockdown. In response to the societal upheaval brought by the pandemic, Das found solace in an unexpected muse: cycling. This newfound pursuit not only provided a physical escape but also

Artist, educator, and art writer Dr. Anirban Dhar clarifies the close relationship between artistic expression and human consciousness. According to Dhar’s introspective approach to art, emotion shapes the essence of artistic creativity by permeating our vision of reality. According to him, art facilitates communication on both an internal and exterior level, with the viewer’s interpretation

For more than twenty years, Puja Aggarwal, an artist with roots in both the corporate world and the ethereal realm of arts, has skilfully combined her passion for painting with her career in management. Aggarwal has an MBA, but her heart beats to the beat of her canvases, where she skilfully tackles themes drawn from

In the domain of contemporary art, Radhesham Dhamal emerges as an artits whose work pulsates with spontaneity and introspection. Beginning with an unblemished canvas, Dhamal’s process is an impromptu ballet of color and line, an expressive act that often births images reminiscent of barns. These early forms, birthed from the intersection of lines, evolve through

Praveen Jariya is an artist, who grew up in the village of Suhjani, Jabalpur and finds great inspiration in the diverse cultural legacy of his hometown. The venerated goddess statue, a symbol of divine adoration ingrained in the village’s customs, is at the centre of his artistic journey. Praveen pays honour to the sacred goddess