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BLUE FISH - 30"x24" - May 2009 - egg tempera

GALLERY

BIRTHING A MULE - Size: 22x16 ins. - Medium: pen and ink

MOON FISHING IN THE SUNDERBANS - Size: 30x24 ins. - Medium: egg tempera

THE QUEST FOR ARCADIA - Size: 30x18 ins. - Medium: egg tempera

THE MOON AND COBWEBS - Size: 24x18 ins. Medium: egg tempera

Title: THE EXPLORER

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium: pen and ink

Title: THE BAN (on bull racing)

Size: 36x24 ins.

Medium: coffee, water colour & pen & ink on paper

I SEE CLUSTERS OF FARIES THOUGH NOT IN THE DAYTIME - Size: 24x18 ins. water colour, crayon and acrylic on paper

Title: SELF PORTRAIT

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour

IMANGINARY LIGHTENING - Size: 36x24 ins. - Medium: egg tempera

THE THING WITH MOTHERING: IT ENDS - Size: 36x24 ins. - Medium: coffee, water colour on paper

THE THING WITH MOTHERING: IT ENDS Size: 36x24 ins. Medium: Coffee, water colour on paper

Title: THE DIASPORA

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour on paper

Title: HIDE N' SEEK

Size: 30x18 ins.

Medium; pen and ink

SHARING CHAPTERS OF PERSONAL HISTORY - Size: 36x25 ins. Medium: coffee, water colour on paper

THE OLD BOMBAY TALKIES - Size: 30x18 ins. Medium: coffee, water colour on paper

Title: BARAAT (wedding procession)

Size: 28x20 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

ICARUS WILL FALL - Size: 30x18 ins. Medium: coffee, water colour on paper - Part of the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at the Bhau Daji Museum- Mumbai

STRESS BUSTERS - Size: 30x18 ins. water colour

Title: MATINEE POSTER

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium; water colour

LYING FLAT-A Chinese saying denoting folk who no longer subscribe to upward mobility as against their peace of mind - Size: 28x20 ins. Medium: water colour

Title: PUPPETEER

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: THE SARI

Size: 30x18 ins

Medium: pen & ink, water colour

Title: THE DIASPORA

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour on paper

Title: THERE IS TOO LITTLE ROOM TO BREATHE

size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour

MONKEYS PLAYING UNDER THE MANGO TREE

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 30x24 ins.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT - First of Triptych. Size: 24x18 ins. Medium: egg tempera

THE OWL & THE PUSSYCAT - Second of triptych

medium - egg tempera

size 24x18 ins.

THE OWL & THE PUSSYCAT - Third of triptych

medium - egg tempera

size - 24x18 ins.

DIPTYCH

MEDIUM: Thread, paper and acrylic on canvas

Size: 72x48 ins.

A windswept journey from partition in 1947 to the present.

CATACOMB

My storehouse of memories

medium - egg tempera

size - 31x24 ins.

title: ORIGAMI BIRDS

medium - egg tempera

size - 24x18 ins.

BEDTIME STORIES

medium - water colour & crayons

size - 35x24 ins.

CAT WOMAN

medium - egg tempera

size - 32x26 ins.

WINTER BIRD

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

THE PORCUPINE

Even the aggressive wild boar dreads being embedded with porcupine quills.

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 36x24 ins.

COWS

medium - thread & acrylic on canvas

size - 30x24 ins.

ECLIPSE

Some hide from the supposed effects of the eclipse. Others worship it.

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

FLAGS - 1

Colonial detritus

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 44x33 ins.

FLAGS 2

Colonial detritus

medium - thread & acrylic on canvas

size - 44x33 ins.

BIRTH CANAL - Horizontal diptych

Here I have placed the birth canal outside the female body in honour of the life affirming act of giving birth.

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 72x48 (this incudes both sides)

BIRTH CANAL - right side of the horizontal diptych

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 48x36 ins.

BIRTH CANAL - left side of the horizontal diptych

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 48x36 ins.

BIRTH CANAL

Medium - egg tempera

size - 33x24 ins.

BIRTH CANAL

medium - pen and ink

size - 28x20 ins.

NESTERS - Diptych - both sides

medium - thread & acrylic on canvas

size - 48x34 ins.

THE SADHU

medium - paper & acrylic on canvas

size - 33x24 ins.

TREES - 1

Nature can be devastatingly unforgiving but with human assistance there is hope for transformation.

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size 37x34 ins.

TREES 2

Nature's howl of anguish & existential despair.

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 37x33 ins.

TREES - 3

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 36x26 ins.

TREES - 4

medium - thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 35x26 ins.

HOUNDS

medium - egg tempera

size - 26x21 ins.

KEEPERS OF THE ELEPHANT CORRIDOR - Size: 30x22 ins. Medium: coffee, pen and ink on paper

REORIENTNG PRIORITIES - Size: 30x22 ins. Medium: coffee, water colour on paper

CAN YOU CARRY YOUR DONKEY TO THE NEXT VILLAGE? - 1 - Triptych

Knowledge of the English language often proves an insurmountable obstacle for those migrating from the villages to the cities for higher studies and jobs. As difficult as carrying one's donkey great distances.

medium - egg tempera

size - 31x24 ins.

CAN YOU CARRY YOUR DONKEY TO THE NEXT VILLAGE? - 2 - triptych

medium - egg tempera

size - 31x24 ins.

CAN YOU CARRY YOUR DONKEY TO THE NEXT VILLAGE? - 3 - triptych

medium - egg tempera

size - 31x24 ins.

WHEELS

My eternally itinerant lifestyle

medium - egg tempera

size - 26x21 ins.

Title: BOOM

Size: 36x12 ins.

medium: beads & collage

Title: MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium; egg tempera & beads

Title: THE THREE LEGGED FISH

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: EASY COMMUNICATION - the highlight of rural India

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: THE INDIAN ROPE TRICK

Size: 30x24 is.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: THE HUNT FOR ARCADIA

Size: 30x18 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: SOME DREAM

Size: 30x20 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: Preliminary painting for TRAVELS ON A BRAHMANI BULL

Size: 28x20 ins.

Medium: egg tempera on board

New Button

Title: PRELIMINARY PAINTING FOR TRAVELS ON A BRAHMINI BULL

Size: 24x20 ins.

Medium: egg tempera on board

Title: GLORY DAYS. 30x22 ins. Medium: watercolour, pen & ink

Title: THE BROAD FISH WORM - Size: 30x24 ins. - Medium: coffee, water colour, pen & ink

THE AMAZON - Size:45x32 ins. Medium: thread, paper, acrylic

Title: HOLDING HANDS

Familiarity with wild animals causes them to lose their fear of humans - B. U. Karanth

size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: water colour on paper

Title: MEMOIRS OF A NON-TRAVELLER

Size: 30x25 ins.

Medium: collage and beads

Title: NO MORE HAIR DYE

Size: 30x25 ins.

Medium; egg tempera

BEDSPREAD

medium - pen and ink

size - 28x20 ins.

HOT FLUSH

Steaming in tropical languor. These middle age sweats never cease.

medium - pen & ink

size - 28x20 ins.

Title: BULL RACING AT QILA RAIPUR

medium - paper & acrylic on canvas

size - 40x36 ins.

I CAN REACH OUT AND TOUCH YOU OMAN

medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

Title: Baraat - THE WEDDING PROCESSION - Diptych (right side)

Size:25x20 ins.

Medium: pen & ink

Title: Baraat - THE WEDDING PROCESSION - Diptych (right side)

Size: 25x20 ins.

Medium: pen & ink

Title: THE LEAP

Size; 30x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: AN ODE TO IDLENESS. diptych (both sides together)

Size: total size of both sides - 50x36 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: DAWN- limbering up for bullet time

Size: 24x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

BULL RACING AT QILA RAIPUR-(diptych-each side 25x18 ins. Total:50x36 ins.) Medium: egg tempera.

Title: DUSK

Size: 35x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera & beads

A PARTICULAR PATTERN OF THINKING - Size: 30X22 ins. - Medium: coffee, water colour, pen & ink on paper

Title: TIGER, TIGER ON THE WALL- diptych - left side

Size: 35x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: TIGER, TIGER ON THE WALL - diptych - right side

Size: 35x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title : BUS STOP - diptych - left side

Size; 24x18 ins.

Medium: pen & ink

Title: BUS STOP - diptych - right side

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium: pen & ink

Title: CONFESSIONS OF AN URN - the painting references the excavations in Tuscany, Italy in 2022

Size: 25x18 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: CUTTING CHAI

Size: 24x18 is.

Medium: water colour

Title: THE OBSCENITY OF CANCER

size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: Preliminary painting for TRAVELS ON A BRAHMANI BULL

Size: 35x24 ins

Medium: pen & ink & crayons on paper

THE DOUBLE HELIX - Size: 24x24 ins. Medium: egg tempera

KAMALA BUYS HER DAUGHTER NEW RIBBONS

medium - water colour & crayons on paper

size - 40x24 ins.

EVOLUTION - top - vertical diptych

medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

EVOLUTION - bottom - vertical diptych

medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

KAVERI

medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

LABURNUM

medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

Title: EXTREME HEAT IS AN EXTINCTION EVENT - Size: 30x24 ins. - Medium: egg tempera

No title

Medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

MAMA

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

Title: REACHING FOR THE STARS - Size: 36x24 ins. Medium: coloured pens

Title: FENCES

Size; 36x25 ins.

Medium: coffee & water Colour

Title: RED EARTH

Size: 36x25 ins

Medium: Coffee & water Colour

Title: STAY!!

size: 36x25 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour

Title: THE VIEW FROM MARS. Size: 48x37 ins. Medium: acrylic, paper & thread on canvas

Title: GIRLS FROM THE ITEM NUMBER DANCE SCHOOL

Size: 36x25 ins.

medium: coffee & water colour

BANANARAMA - Size: 36x24 ins. - Medium: India ink, water colour

Title: THE ALBUM

Size; 30x24 ins.

Medium: water colour

MOST THINGS DON'T HAPPEN, THIS ONE WILL

medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

Title: BUSH FIRE

size: 44x33 ins.

medium: thread on canvas

'PHEW' AIR

Run off my feet.

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

PINK

medium - egg tempera

size - 36x24 ins.

PONTIUS PILATE

Medium - water colour on paper

size - 34x11 ins.

Title: THE DIASPORA

medium - egg tempera

size - 24x24 ins.

ROWING

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

Title: ROWING

Size: 25x20 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colours

SALTED/UNSALTED - Size: 25x20 ins. - medium: coffee, water colour on paper

Title; BOOM - over consumption

size; 30x24 ins

Medium: beads & collage

Title; LEAP FROG

Size: 25x20 ins.

Medium: pen & ink

Title: A DETOUR OF THE BIG BANG THEORY

Size:30x24 ins.

Medium; egg tempera

Title: COVID DAYS - Museums closed & the show postponed

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour on paper

Title: CATCHING BUTTERFLIES

Size: 24x18 ins.

medium: pen & ink on paper

Title: WOMEN SHOULD HAVE A LOT MORE AGENCY. Size: 44x24 ins. Medium: coffee & water colour

Title: COMMUNING WITH AN EAGLE

Size: 21x30 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: AFTER 50 YEARS: DIALOGUE WITH A CROW

Size:

Title: SCRIMMAGE (2)

size: 30x20 ins.

Medium; egg tempera

title: SELF PORTRAIT

Size; 24x18 ins.

Medium: Coffee & water colour on paper

Title: STAR SCRAPERS

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour

Title; IN THE SALON

Size: 24x18

Medium: water colour

SORRY IMELDA I WAS BUSY OVULATING

medium - water colour on paper

size - 40x24 ins.

SPARRING BULLS

medium - egg tempera

size - 24x24 ins.

Medium - thread and acrylic on canvas

Size - 47x36 ins.

THE GOOD LIFE

I now have TIME, glorious TIME.

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

A COGNITIVE BALANCING ACT

Life in a nutshell

medium - egg tempera

size - 24x18 ins.

A PORTRAIT OF INDIA. With 50% of the population below the age of 21, India is young. Size: 54x47 ins. Medium: thread, paper and acrylic on canvas.

DAI (village midwife)

The Dai, till very recently, was the only lifeline for women in rural areas. More of an angel than anything else while giving birth.

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

NOT EVERYTHING IS BLACK & WHITE (horizontal diptych) Total size: 45x35 ins. Medium: thread, paper, acrylic on canvas

TRIANGULAR PAINTING - Size: 25x20 ins. Medium: water colour

Title: THE SKATEBOARD

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

BIRD WOMAN - Ami is a spinster who lives in a home surrounded by crows. She never feels alone and that is for sure. Her crows create a ruckus should anyone approach her front door.

medium - paper, thread, acrylic on canvas

size - 30x24 ins.

HISTORY & FICTION MELD TOGETHER - Size: 30x22 ins. Medium: coffee, water colour on paper.

HIGHRISE AND FROGS

Living in concrete cities creates a longing for the outdoors and nature in the wild.

medium - pen and ink

size - 30x24 ins.

STUDIOVISITORS- Size: 28x20 ins. Medium: coffee, pen & ink on paper

Title: DANCING WITH A MULE

medium - water colour on paper

size - 35x24 ins.

TWO MEN AND A GOAT

medium - egg tempera

size - 31x24 ins.

HOME

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

TWO MONKEYS

medium - egg tempera

size - 30x24 ins.

date of execution - Dec. 2017

YOGA DAYS. A daily bind but an antidote to all that sitting.

medium - egg tempera

size - 31x24 ins.

date of execution - April 2011

Title: FLAGS 3

Size: 44x33 ins.

Medium:

A WHOLE OTHER STORY WAS BUILT OVER COVID - Size: 30x18 ins. Medium: pen and ink

Title: PRAYER FLAGS. Size: 49x42 ins. Medium: thread, paper & acrylic on canvas

Title: THE SCRIMMAGE - 2

Size: 30x24

medium: egg tempera

Title: IF THEY HAD LESS IN COMMON THEY WOULD FIND IT EASIER TO AGREE

Size 30x24 ins

Medium: egg tempera

Title: ANNIKA

Size: 32x32 is.

Medium: thread & acrylic

Title: THE TELESCOPE

Size: 24x18 ins.

Medium: coffee & water colour on paper

Title: TWO MEN AND A GOAT

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium; egg tempera

LISTEN LADIES-Size: 30x24 ins. - Medium: egg tempera

Title ; WAITING FOR THE TRAIN

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera & thread

Title: KARAOKE GIRLS

Size: 30x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera

Title: KARAOKE GIRLS AND THE FOX

size: 30x24 ins.

medium: egg tempera & thread

Title: ANNIKA size: 31x22 is. Medium: acrylic

Title; KITE FLYING

Size: 39x28 ins.

Medium; pen & ink & water colour on paper

Title: Snake catcher Lokesh or 'Lokeshsnake' as he was called, rescued over a 1000 snakes to release into the wild. On this unfortunate occasion the cobra and the cat were entwined in mortal combat. The very agitated snake sunk its' teeth into Lokesh's arm as he tried to subdue it. Lokesh died the next day.

Size: 33x24 ins.

Medium: egg tempera