...quiet times, fulfilling dreams, doing things one never had time to, discovering different facets to my life, enjoying my own space!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
I am in a naturopathy clinic for 2 weeks. This is a retreat, a place where one focuses
on reconnecting with one’s body and the healing
of it, the experience has been rejuvenating….I want to share this with
people, my family and friends, and even just acquaintances who may find my
experience something they can connect with! I wonder whether I should start another blog as this
blog is meant for my journey into the world of water colour! But suddenly I realise a simple truth, all my art is linked with my life. It’s my very
personal impressions and perspective of things and happenings around
which colour what I paint and how I paint it! So this is indeed the right place
for me to share my thoughts.
A creeper with bright pink flowers, "rani pink" as Thai called them, grows on a wall across from where I sit and eat my diet of fruit!
For those of you reading who don’t know what Naturopathy is,
you can check out the link here www.jindalnaturecure.org/ ! I am here with Nishka and we are already one
week into our stay and have another few
days left. Its good mother – daughter bonding time, which is a huge bonus! Its been all that one expected….and I’m
confident I will go back feeling well and rejuvenated! It’s such a unique experience to be in a space
where everyone is into the business of healing and learning to value and
respect one’s body, understand the critical link between one’s mind and body, and
how the well being of one effects the
other, and cannot work in isolation! There is such a positive energy around, I
feel uplifted. There are people from all
walks of life here, people whom we would possibly never meet in our regular
lives…..and yet we strike up conversations and talk about all sorts of things,
from cooking to how one prays, if one does! I met a lady who can recite the entire Ramayana in Sanskrit, and she was so proud of it. She is twisted with pain and walks with some difficulty, but is brave enough to attend the 6 am yoga sessions!
We all seem to instinctively reach
out to another person in any kind of discomfort. The amazing thing is our life here is such
that one has the time to notice it, and actually do something. So when Nishka
caught a chill and was unwell for a couple of days, so many random people, would stop me to ask whether she was well or
not, someone who had been on the next mat during our early morning yoga, or
sat next to me while waiting for one of the treatments!Conversations just happen!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Sketching in Bryant Park in Manhattan
I wish I painted more....even sketched more....thought I would do a whole lot more than I have done during my holiday. Bryant Park was close to the hotel and we went for a walk, sat and ate a sandwich and I sketched this lovely stone pot, full of flowers and greenery! This is a quick sketch.....as we got caught in the rain....and had to rush back to the hotel!
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Old brick archway in Portugal
I have put together a whole lot of reference pictures that I want to use as a base for the paintings for my exhibition in March! I am possibly going to focus on boats, old windows and doors and arches! This was a wonderful old fort we visited in Portugal. I loved the red bricks and the picture it made with a bit of the overhanging tree, the sunlit spaces and shadows! The picture is an A4 size and I have used a rough paper! It added to the picture!
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Boats in Cochin!
The exciting thing is that I have booked a gallery for my first ever exhibition! I am doing it jointly with Jyoti David. She is a more experienced artist and we try and get together every Saturday to paint! Now that we have committed ourselves I have 8 months to get some decent work done!
An artist friend said that one should only paint something when it moves you and touches your heart! These boats in Kerala certainly did! There is something fascinating about boats, especially the country ones we have in India.... of so many varieties as well! The combination of the water and the boat, the stillness and calm of the moment, filled me with a feeling of wanting to capture the moment....so here it is....
An artist friend said that one should only paint something when it moves you and touches your heart! These boats in Kerala certainly did! There is something fascinating about boats, especially the country ones we have in India.... of so many varieties as well! The combination of the water and the boat, the stillness and calm of the moment, filled me with a feeling of wanting to capture the moment....so here it is....
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