ARTIST STATEMENT

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work begins with the question:
What does it mean to remember, to feel, to be human?

Each painting is an attempt to listen to what is faint, fleeting, or forgotten. I’m drawn to the spaces between things: between thought and emotion, presence and absence, what’s seen and what’s felt. In those thresholds, something wordless begins to surface – a memory, a trace, a pulse of connection.

Rather than depict a moment, I let the painting become one, a living surface where time, memory, and emotion overlap. The forms often hover between abstraction and figuration, echoing how we experience ourselves: never fully defined, yet deeply felt.

Through this process, I’m not searching for resolution, but for resonance, a glimpse of what remains when everything else falls away. My hope is that the work invites joy in that moment of recognition when something unspoken within us finally finds its reflection.

At its heart, my practice is about unearthing the connection between self and memory, between one human being and another, between the visible world and the invisible life that moves through it all

ABOUT ME 

I was born and raised in India, in a home full of color, poetry, and feeling.
My mother’s silk saris that shimmered like memories,
my grandfather’s poetic verses,
and my geologist father’s stories about the earth —
they all taught me early that everything we touch
holds a moment worth remembering.

I always felt life deeply, even when I didn’t have the words.
The sweetness of childhood.
The ache of growing up.
The quiet love inside everyday moments.

But like so many of us, I learned to be practical,
to stay busy,
to tuck my inner world away.

Years later, during a meditation retreat,
that inner world suddenly came rushing back.
All the joy, curiosity, and wonder I had set aside
returned with a softness I couldn’t ignore.

It didn’t turn me into someone new,
it simply reminded me who I had always been.

Painting became the way I honored that reminder.
A way to hold onto feelings that need not be forgotten.
A way to give tenderness a place to live.
A way to make the invisible parts of life
feel seen again.

My work is about the memories that make a home…
the small moments that become big ones…
the sweetness we don’t want to lose.

Today I paint from Florida and New Jersey,
following that gentle calling —
one loving, nostalgic story at a time,
so we can all keep a little more heart
on our walls and in our everyday lives.

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