I have always cared about expressing my emotions and feelings rather than only making a picture look real. My style of painting a canvas still remains the same, I like to be a part of every canvas I paint. This series I painted while I was on the move in Europe and the middle east. Every landscape is so different than the other, as I painted and ventured into the abstract realm once again. The paintings I have created this time have a lot of texture, and getting an impasto effect using very thick paint so that the brush and knife work, my strokes are clearly visible. The paintings have been created on locations. Being a mural artist I always pay attention to the environment around me while creating an installation, in the same way while painting these canvases on site I observed the subtle differences and shifts in color value and shape. It helped me personally to orchestrate my paintings to achieve the truth of the scene.
Every artist has his own perception, my perception has always been based on knowledge and awareness it is this attentiveness that helps me create. If you observe carefully nothing in my painting is still, forms seem to hover up, around and collide as they fall creating new shapes altogether. You may notice a startling contrast between thin transparent paint, and thick textured impasto used to create my subject. No two compositions are alike , if in a canvas I have used vivid colors with abstract composition to catch your eye the other may have completely saturated tones. Some of them are a sophisticated mix of warm and cool colors mostly low intensity with a punch or two of intense color just to break the monotony. Like I mentioned earlier my canvases are not still, they have rhythmic energy, so do my strokes when I paint. My strokes and use of colors which has to look visually very interesting to me, I am able to achieve this because I just let go and feel the juice, the energy , the vibe of the painting. Just one simple formula works every time no boundaries and limitations my canvas allows me total freedom.
I enjoyed growing up a part of my life in Kashmir. We had the mountains and the meadows, beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside. This journey was full of memories from my childhood, kept having a ton of Déjà vu. It worked positively for me, as I believe that everything you need for life is provided at birth and your life’s path is already somewhat chosen for you. Would conclude by saying that I painted my last canvas of this series a month before I created my masterpiece, my son on. 14.02.2012. Hope to see everyone at the exhibition.
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