Colour-coded dreams

The present exhibition will feature,in her own words,“landscapes,seascapes and rooftops.” The thick catalogue of her recent works divides her paintings on these lines,and are off-set by intermittent white and black backgrounds. The colourful oil on canvas works have a distinct ambient quality about them and seem like the extension of one continuous thought rather than different points of view. “I have channelised varied inspirations into the paintings,it’s not about looking at a place,but a mix of what all I saw and felt in many places. Like,the landscapes are symbolic of looking at fields from a distance,” explains Bhaduri. Her creative process is an introspective one,involving “playing around for hours at length” with her favourite medium – oil paints. “Everything I paint is symbolic of the people I meet or the forms I encounter. It’s a representation of the language I derive from them.”

Bhaduri’s canvasses are swathes of colour,with lines and figures often crowding one corner or the center of the frame. One understands her inspiration when she says that art,eventually,is a search for her. “It’s always about creating the next painting,searching for something else. It’s a relentless process,” she says. After a graduation in Economics from Pune,Bhaduri completed a masters in Arts and Painting from SNDT,Mumbai. She also has a diploma in French from Alliance de Francaise. With no mentor to guide her creative path,she made the people closest to her the source of her ideas and perspective. “An artist is expected to create something new,otherwise it’s replication. Why would people look at something if it’s not new,if it doesn’t touch their hearts?”