Rangoli

Rangoli is art of decorating floor, a floor painting - an earliest known art of Indian subcontinent. Now known as a decorative art – it is made with dry colors or fresh flowers, petals, candles or burning earthen pots composed out side or inside the pattern of Rangoli. These are painted on entrance of home to invoke the blessings of deity.

Gujrati cupboard

Acrylic on wood

Size 30 by 30

Created in 2002

PUPPET: The Gypsy

Created in 2006

Radha Krishna

Medium- oils

Size- 19 inches by 15 inches

Created in 1996

Signifying love, purity, sacrifice and humanity. A devotee with help of music should be able to perform prayers in devotion, surrendering to lord Krishna - as Radha praying to him for everlasting bliss.

Lali Mere Lal Ki

Medium- oils

Size- 35 inches by 24 inches

Created in 2004

Talks of Sankha, "CONCH" in red- a symbol of purity.

The vibrations of its sound has an awakening and purifying force. That is why blowing of conch signifies the commencement of Pooja (Prayer) to seek Gods blessings. The blessings would help in becoming part of eternity depicted in color red.

Duniya Khel Tamasha

Medium- oils

Size- 48 inches by 36 inches

Created in 2004

We are puppets in hands of God. These Punjabi (North Indian) women seem to have prosperity and strength. The rotating sun in centre is the most auspicious symbol of art form - reflecting warmth of nature and succession of generations.The movements signifies union of space and time drawing rhythm from life.

Ek Hi Maat Ek Hi Kumhara Ek Sabhi Ka Sirjan Haara

Medium- Oil on Glass

Size- 35 inches by 10 inches

Created in 2004

A divine poetic composition from Guru Granth Sahib (the holy book of Sikhs) is very sublime and soothing. It talks about golden chance that ones’ soul gets in obtaining a human life - and life not to be wasted in the realm of “MAYA” - an illusion.

Chirping Dreams

Medium- Acrylic

Size- 24 inches by 30 inches

Created in 2001

The celestial bird with lady and sun in background seems to be associated with nobility, height and spirit of life. Popular in the folklores of Asia, these bird like figures are usually found as an auspicious symbol at the entrance of the Temples, Mosques and Gurudwaras. Here the form has a modern contemporary look.

Locked Infinity

Medium-oil pastels

Size-24 inches by 28 inches

Created in 2005

Locks and keys are associated with insecurity and destruction. Just as life has meaning in relation to death, creation achieves validity with reference to destruction. They are the dual forces played upon each other in cosmic cycle.

Sati Burning

Medium- oils

Size- 14 inches by 18 inches

Created in 2002

This Indian practice of self immolation performed by wife at pyre of husband reveals the darker side of humanity. Humans have always been both creative as well as destructive. We humans share in adding to the pains and sorrows of the world. These deformed faces indicate "WHAT HUMANS HAVE DONE TO HUMANITY".

Meditating Buddha in blue

Medium- Acrylic

Size- 24 inches by 30 inches

Created in 2003

Color blue with Buddha is a symbol of enlightenment and purification which counteract the dark forces in the universe. Buddha is very crucial to peace tradition and continues to be in its manifestations of peace talks. No worship, offerings of peace are complete without lord Buddha.

Tree Goddess

Medium-oils

Size-24 inches by 30 inches

Created in 1996

The important symbol of goddess and tree stands for life giving force, growthand proliferation. “THE TREE GODDESS" is a benign deity, also the harbinger of monsoon, the life line of Indian sub-continent.

Incarnation

Medium--oils

Size 30 Inches X 48 inches

Created in 2001

The saint has now descended to human land and has become more like an average man, woman and child. The historic ideals are no longer valued and have no roots in contemporary reality. Now a common man incarnates to be a deity.

Tenderness

Medium- oils

Size- 18 inch by 22 inch

Created in 1995

An amalgam of the earthly and the sublime, is full of deep humanity, of warmth and tenderness of admiration for women and man's beauty and compassion for animals. The mystical and the realistic are mingled to form a single indivisible whole.

Self Search

Medium-oil pastels

Size-10 inch by 18 inch

Created on March 28, 1998

Celebrating the fabulous world of creating imagination, aloof and distant and yet so close, lying outside mankind's fanatic preoccupations. My works are simply expressions of the received joy of spirit contemplating life and countless forms. Evidently the responsive, impressionable child in me is very much alive.