MY PRACTICE IS DRIVEN BY COLOUR, ENERGY, AND THE ACT OF PAINTING ITSELF.
I WORK INSTINCTIVELY — RESPONDING TO SURFACE, MATERIAL, AND MOMENT — ALLOWING EACH PAINTING TO EMERGE THROUGH PROCESS RATHER THAN PLAN.
THE WORK MOVES BETWEEN ABSTRACTION AND IMAGE, BUT IS ALWAYS ROOTED IN saturation, EXPERIMENTATION, AND THE UNEXPECTED.
About the Artist & Creative Process
Painting for me is a responsive process rather than a fixed idea. I don’t begin with a resolved image in mind; instead, each work develops through colour, gesture, and interaction with the surface. Layers are built, altered, and sometimes disrupted so the finished painting carries the trace of how it was made.
Repurposed materials play an important role in this. I often work on salvaged wood, reused panels, or found surfaces, allowing their texture and history to influence how the painting evolves. The surface isn’t neutral — it’s something I react to.
Living and working in Mumbai pushed my practice in this direction. The intensity of the city encouraged a more instinctive approach and a willingness to experiment, but the work itself isn’t tied to one place or subject. Some paintings emerge from observation, others from gesture alone, but all are shaped through the process of painting rather than a predetermined outcome.
Ultimately, I want the paintings to feel immediate — something experienced through colour, movement, and surface rather than explained in advance.
