Statement

My work is rooted in the language of the script. Over the years, I have used script as a king of sign that reflects experience. Of course the script reveals different meanings to different people, and I think over time painting is also a kind of writing. The manner in which I use the script over colour, sometimes floating, sometimes submerged all seem to echo the seen and the unseen. I believe that the desire to articulate comes unconsciously. When I create I don't think about the stimulus or the result but the movement of associations through inner and outer spaces gives me the power to communicate onto the canvas.

Biography

Born 1956 in Indore, he has held 25 solo shows all over India, and has participated in important group shows. He has curated many shows namely Women in Painting for Sahitya Parishad, Bhopal; for Central Zone for Tao art Gallery, Mumbai; show of young painters for Art Indus Gallery, New Delhi; for Art Today, New Delhi. He was a co-curator for Asian Art Centre Maryland, U.S.A. He has also set up a Museum of Police Band at P.H.Q., Bhopal, Museum of Tribal, Folk and Contemporary art at Towson University, U.S.A. He has written Biography of Eminent Painter M.F.Husain. He was an artist in residence at Austria. He lives and works in Bhopal.