‘Roots’ Mix medium paintings by Venus Sanghvi

 

018_Oil on Canvas_18" x 24"

24th Sept. - 5th Oct. 2018: Pradarshak presents ‘Roots’ Mix medium paintings by Venus Sanghvi

“Just like the tree is held together by its roots, our vocabulary is held together by AUM. This statement is the inspiration for my new series ‘Roots’,” says artist Venus Sanghvi. 

An abstractionist with an invigorated view to life and living, Venus is uninhibited in her use of hues as she layers her paintings with intonations of the bygone, the present and the hopeful future. Her work reflects the language of colours along with the scripts of AUM, as the two elements merge and fuse to become one holistic unit.

016_Oil on Canvas_20" x 20"

08_Mix Medium on Canvas_12" x 14" x 14"

“The process I engage in for mark making and altering the surfaces are score, incise, type, print, paint, write, draw, burn, etch, stencil, stamp etc., and the materials I integrate are metal, paper, wood, heat, sindoor, ink, soot, etc.” she informs.

A confluence of elements in her paintings offers a visual meditation of the energies, thoughts, feelings, and culture.  Shapes and structures begin to take form, which she reflects through the layers of paint, drippings, brushstrokes etc.  Her brush strokes are inspired from the studies of John Sargent’s masterpieces during her master’s degree. Her paintings come alive as an interplay of layers, where colours are the energies, and thick and thin brush strokes and textures express her interaction with the immediate environment and her inner core.

015_Oil on Canvas_20" x 20"

The paintings express the semantic of harmony, veiled or unveiled, in the esoteric layers of colours, scripts and textures to form rhythmic patterns and designs. As Venus concludes, “In essence, my paintings are cue for our wonderful origin, the delicate fragility of that gentle existence.”