Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: Life begins for the baby in a safe comfort zone - in the darkness of its mother’s womb. All is silent. Calm. The foetus spends nine months in meditation, wondering what awaits when it leaves this warm place and joins humanity.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: The baby is born. And is still connected by an invisible umbilical cord to its mother. The breast offers nourishment, nurturing and love. Yellow colors a major part of the canvas. It is the color of The Light. A color associated with happy times, and satisfaction.

Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: Just as new seedlings begin to take root and grow in Spring, the baby too begins to grow into childhood. This stage can be experienced in the mind of an adult, when it opens the mind to new ideas, new concepts, new teachings. When we learn, we grow.

Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: One of the most beautiful feelings associated with childhood is that sense of awe, that experience of bewilderment. Like the first time, your parents took you to a toy store, or in later years, the first time you saw your own newborn child. Or when you look up at a midnight sky and see stars twinkling in unison. The day we lose our sense of awe is a sorry day indeed.

Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: It is said in ancient Hindu scriptures that the entire universe is the result of ‘lila’. A sanskrit word I love: that means play. As children, we played, without inhibitions, losing ourselves in our imagination and raw creativity. But as we grew up, we changed, and act often to conform to the norms and yardsticks of society. We act to be liked and accepted. Could it well be that in doing so, we have lost our individuality? If not, our soul?

Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: Oh to be young and bursting with high energy. Like the warm heat of summer, this is the age when we court the pleasures of life with wild abandon. We go for broke. Feeling on top of the world. Invincible.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: The heat is on. Fired with determination and fueled with invigorating energy, we think ourselves ready to take on the world. It is a time of relentless drive. Our passion is inexhaustible. Colors are bright, sizzling.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: Colors remain brilliant expressing the zest one has for life in the summer of one’s existence. Colors dance to the moving energies in this stage of one’s life. The thought of the need to slow down never crosses one’s mind. Do we stop to consider if we are moving too fast? But then, when one is young, one lives constantly on the move, even on the razor’s edge - one does not have time to make moments last.

Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: The work expresses the abundance of many things. Just like harvests reap fruit and produce in summer, the young mind generates a plethora of ideas. There is a great supply of energy, brute strength. Abundance abounds.

Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: The season of summer is synonymous with holidays and good times. People tend to venture more outdoors, to bask in the warm sunlight. It is a season bringing endless opportunities for enjoyment. Joy goes beyond happiness, beyond pleasures. It is a deep feeling of absolute contentment, of a fullness that can only be experienced with a sense of gratitude.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: The colors of autumn are warm, rich and intense. As we process the autumnal years of our lives, we often revel in our achievements; having attained a level of satisfaction, and success. Most of our goals at this third stage of life have been met. Colors denoting success are sumptuous - the auspicious red and precious gold.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: Autumn suggests a time for making changes. Like the falling leaves of the season, we start to slowly let go. These changes have to be made sooner or later, and if we do not take responsibility to change, life, nature, the universe, will force us to finally change.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2023 Description: As we retreat within more and more, we begin to introspect. Our ponderings deepen. We begin to spend more time on self healing. We get in touch with our spirituality. We question our needs, our desires, knowing deep within that our best bet would be to go with The Flow. For when you are in that Flow of Life, the Flow will support you.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: The climatic seasons abide by the Order of Nature. They work hand in hand with all that there is, guided by a higher intelligence. Flowers dont make a fuss when it is time to die. They sacrifice themselves and many give rise to fruit, so that humankind can eat. Detachment is one of the ways to a peaceful existence. It is only possible with proper discernment and discrimination.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: In the beautiful Lord’s Prayer, it is said Thy will be done. Similarly, there is a Sanskrit wisdom Isvara Pranidhana, which means surrender to the will of God. This surrender does not come from a point of defeat, but from a place of humility and trust. This is one way to look at Acceptance. We waste too much energy fighting acceptance. Wanting things our way. Once there is acceptance, any problem can be solved.

Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: In the winter of our lives, it is a time for gratitude. To reach one’s golden years, to look back on a life hopefully well spent, well lived. Knowing one has done one’s level best to fulfill one’s soul’s purpose. That no stone has been left unturned. That one has ideally left a mark, a legacy. Yes, the physical body might be frail but let the mind be filled with contentment and vitality.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: Do not see the golden years as that of just old age. Rather see it as a time of living wisdom. Reflect on one’s life and the many experiences, adventures from which one has learnt. Be thankful for the knowledge others have shared with us. How this knowledge has been lived, experienced, and now has been transformed into wisdom. This wisdom has been well earned. Through blood, sweat and tears. It is now the time to pass on one’s wisdom.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: In the winter stages of life, one often retreats inwards. Solitude is no longer a stranger. It becomes a constant companion. A friend. One prefers to be far from the maddening crowd. It is a time for contemplation, perhaps prayer. Pain might prevail: yet even if one may be in pain, one need not suffer. For although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: An expression in white, symbolising the presence of The Light. Yet white is all colors. Pass light through a prism and behold how the light splits into the seven colors of the rainbow. The golden years of the winter of our lives should ideally be spent in enjoying peaceful hours. In communion with nature, connecting with Spirit. It is a time of quietude, and gratitude. Sans fear and anxieties.

Mixed media on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2022 Description: Finally, there is the inevitable. Death comes a calling. Death that horrid beauty as once described by a hindu swami. The artist does not see death as her end. It is only the demise of the physical body. The artist believes in absorption: into the oneness of all that there is. Being still human, of course, there are apprehensions, anxieties. Hence, let us remind ourselves that one is much more than just this physical body.