For Peace
Peace seems to be hardest thing to find these days. People even pay thousands in search of peace in different destinations that claim to offer 'peace' in return for their services! May be some at last...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Priti Vadakkath
Priti Vadakkath is one of the promising artists I have come across in Kochi in the recent times. Her works, though not drenched in colours, have an alluring quality to it and it very often makes a...
View ArticleQueries, Queries and More Queries...
How do you see art? What's your perspective? How does art affect one's life or the life of others? How is the future going to be for our children? Recently Connie Solera, a beautiful soul-artist - as I...
View ArticleChanging Skies
Are you a sky-gazer? I am.Gazing at the sky (particularly at dawn and dusk), taking in all the changing hues and morphing forms each and every minute is something one really needs to seep in when...
View ArticleHappy 2016!
A brand new year!A brand new beginning!No resolutions...that has never been so with me!But with just a few prayers in my heart...Be grateful to whatever Life has to offer.I know it's kind of...
View ArticleAsus ZenPad 8.0 - Product Review
Good Morning Dear Friends!To begin with and to be honest, I am not a very tech savvy person!Having said that, I am all the same thrilled to have received a Great New Year Gift in the form of an Asus...
View ArticleTropical
Tropical (Illustration Friday topic) in Gond inspired painting...‘Tropical’ is something am always fond of for its wildly bursting flowers of myriad warm hues, deliciously looking birds, blue beaches...
View ArticleIn Dreams Flourish...
Some days are such that you don't know where to start from...what to write exactly while there are thousands of things sounding, drumming inside you...you would like to quieten it but then that doesn't...
View Article...Stranger than Fiction
“It’s not everyday that the world arranges itself into fiction."I just heard it from a Prologue to the movie 'Humans of Someone'...and that is something extraordinarily beautiful!I totally agree with...
View ArticleGond Painting Workshop
How do you enjoy workshops? If it's artsy with kids then there's no idea of the time swooshing past...I had a great time with selected kids of Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Elamakkara. .This is a much delayed...
View ArticleEye of the Soul - Art Exhibition
Four passionate artists in four different mediums are joining our hands together to interpret our ‘eye of the soul’. The four artists’ being Anil Kumar, Kumar P Mookkuthala Satheesh Vellinezhi and...
View ArticleThank You Note!
'Eye of the Soul' concluded well and I would love to extend our thanks to each and every family member, relatives, friends, friends of friends, blogger friends, our X-Victorians and visitors for not...
View ArticleMelting Pot - The Travelling Show
When art and culture meet, blending from different regions finding a common voice/language to interpret shared perspectives of identity, nationalism, femininity, cultural dynamism, displacement and...
View ArticleWhatever art is called...
Soul searchingSoul stirringSoul pacifyingI experience it at many levelsOne way or the otherPerhaps everything comesUnder one roofAt some point or the otherBe it ordinary or surrealThe best wayHowever...
View ArticlePoetry, Art and the rest...
This week Kochi saw the second edition of Poetry Installation in the acclaimed Durbar Hall Art Gallery. It had four poets - Tensin Tsundue, CIni Mathew John, Rafeeq Ahmed and Ajessh Dasan - whose...
View Article'Mundane' is nothing but Extraordinary
Durbar Hall Art Gallery D opened up in colourful suggestions and imaginative pieces and since none was there at that time because of the heavy rain, it gave me ample liberty to walk around scanning and...
View ArticleArt, Journal and Retreats
When one thinks of the umpteen talents sprawling across all over the world, one is just left wondering endlessly. I often am left at that! Amazing artists' who somehow connect with one where ever we...
View ArticleKashi 2016 Project
Kashi Art Gallery is working on a community based public art project regarding women conceptualized and curated by Tanya Abraham with Gigi Scaria, a collateral of the Kochi Muziris biennale. The first...
View ArticleHow to paint Sunset in 5 simple steps
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” ― Crystal WoodsPreparing the base After adding yellow, yellow ochre and Indian yellow After adding orangeAfter adding scarlet lake After adding raw...
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