Inspired by nature, artist Maneesha Doshi’s latest works play with oxymorons

Artist Maneesha Doshi's mixed media artworks play with the idea of oxymoron, a figure of speech in which two contradictory terms are juxtaposed. (Source: PR Handout)

Why oxymoron? According to the press statement, her meta-landscapes, hovering between the possible and the impossible, declare that they will occupy two modes of painting at once. One is more of a narrative order in which a story unfolds smoothly- the trees sway, the branches dance, leaves change colours and so on. And the other is about the verticals and the horizontals that hold a building in shape or can exist without any narrative element (Source: PR Handout)

The works strike a conversation about form and shadow (Source: PR Handout)

The landscape works, as part of Weaving Worlds exhibition, are at display at Ahmedabad's 079 | Stories until November 11, 2022 (Source: PR Handout)

Interestingly, her cut-out paintings urge spectators to consider paintings as organic entities that are akin to sculptures or free-standing forms, according to the press statement (Source: PR Handout)

Maneesha, who is the daughter of veteran architect and artist B V Doshi began painting at the age of five. But it was only after she completed her graduation in psychology that she began her training and experimenting in different media such as painting, sculpting, and printmaking at the Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad (Source: PR Handout)

Doshi's continued this study of art at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the M.S. University, Baroda and completed a Diploma and Post Diploma in Painting there. She then attended a workshop in Fontainbleau, France. (Source: PR Handout)

One of Maneesha's works. (Source: PR Handout)

Maneesha Doshi's mixed media artworks will be on displayed only at the gallery. (Source: PR Handout)