My fascination to portray buildings started from when I was about 7, after a visit to our architect's office when our home was being built. It was a real feast to see entire walls of architectural drawings. This was my first understanding of 'perspective' - I was amazed as to how a viewer could visualise what was not completely depicted. This was a revelation to me.
And so I started working on my very own ambitious project - to draw our home. I made several drawings - as I improved technically, I also discovered that the subject looked different, depending on how I saw it. With time and practice, I began to see patterns in urban landscape, of light and shade, of shapes and sizes, of what I saw and what I didn't and what I wanted to say about them and what I didn't.
Oil paints, with the use of palette knives, I discovered, were a brilliant medium to narrate my interpretation of the fabric of the places that I travelled to. As these paintings are not painted in situ, but rather from memory, allowing fragments of visual data to combine with my subjective and emotional response. This is an ongoing series for me that allows me to narrate what I am inspired by - hence, some places revisited and retold more than others...
All measurements in inches
