1. Why do I paint?

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First, let me tell you a personal story.

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It happened two and a half decades ago. The year was 1993! We were invited to the inauguration of an art exhibition by a then budding (now renowned) abstract artist Udairaj Gadnis. Vasant Sathe, the President of the Indian Council Of Cultural Relations was the chief guest of the event. After the formal inauguration, the artist started showing the paintings of his 'The Luminous' series. He was revealing the spiritual meaning behind every painting when, all of a sudden, my three-years old daughter Aneeha, excited by a colourful painting shouted: "Papa, see triangles, triangles, triangles!" As a parent, I was a bit embarrassed  but the Chief Guest turned to Aneeha, shook hands with her, and said (probably to alleviate our embarrassment : "Hi dear! Honestly, I too understood only that much!"

 

At that time, I could not have imagined that almost 25 years later, I shall too pick up a brush to paint! That too abstract!

 

I picked up a brush because at a particular point of time, I realised that expressing my inner self was not always possible through words (which, as a writer, I had been doing for the last two decades.)

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