My favourite medium right now is acrylics. I love them, not just for the intense colours, flat finish and fluidity, but also because I am an impatient person and they dry quickly. I know that is not very artsy or intellectual of me, but hey, I never claimed either! I draw inspiration from a number of things. Most of my pieces are a direct result of something I have seen and how they somehow burnt an image into my memory. The biggest influence on my work though is people. The persons I am surrounded by and deal with on a regular basis and more specifically the emotions I am feeling while interacting with them, have a very direct impact on the work I am generating. For example, Balance Between Logic and Emotion and Sub Conscious Workings, were both painted when I was having a particularly hard time with a friend I refer to as Ant.

 That Which Scars You Makes You Stronger meanwhile was painted when I had been forced to revisit an unpleasant period in my life. Both these sets of paintings were borne out of particularly unhappy emotions, Mardi Gras Nights on the other hand was painted when I was supremely happy, and in fact had help from Rocky, my very furrrrry cat.

 That’s what they are, these things I create, snapshots or photographs of emotion. Some people talk about them, my form of communication is to paint.

To thank for some of my most loved pieces and most hurtful projects: My sister and best friend, Priyanka; my brother in law, Amit; Megan, my other best friend; Jeff my reluctant confidante; my Parents, who for better or worse gave me so many of the experiences that temper my paintings and expressions; and Paresh, who gave me a totally separate set of experiences that added depth and openness to my communication. Of course as ever present influences and persons who shape my thoughts and incite emotions I have to thank all the wonderful, not so wonderful and downright abominable personalities who share my life every day, without them I really would be at a complete loss!