ABOUT ME
I came to the United States in the summer of 2013 to spent two and a half years in New York. My first reaction was of course what I would have accomplished in this city if I could have only come here some thirty years ago. Not being one who dwells in the past or in what could have been, I started to think how I could be productive and contribute to society immediately. While I was looking for opportunities to mentor small children, I took a training course on make-up artists. It was at that training where I was introduced to the face chart and maybe that was what opened up the potential artist that I was unaware of existed within me. It was a sudden metamorphosis when I started to use the face chart paper to dabble with different types of woman’s face make-up using the make-up kit.
I moved to Cary in North Carolina at the end of 2016 and my interest in using the face chart extended to depicting the joys and tribulations of human condition and the human mind. That was when I first started using colored pencils. I moved on to depict the environment and climate change and different festivals around the world on the human face.
I started with pencil art first and wanted to work with acrylic and oil paints. But I did not know how to proceed. I started to explore where I could learn the basics and found out that there was a ten-hour, five-day session for amateur artists organized at the Cary Art Center in April 2017. I joined the group to learn about different types of painting material. That was when my journey into the art world began. Until then, I had not imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be an artist someday as I knew absolutely nothing about the tools of the art and very little of the art world. While I started to paint, I was constrained by the fact that I knew very little of the different types of art and the history of art and the artists. I started with a google search of the famous artists and their work. Having studied the different art forms, I became increasingly interested in impressionism and surrealism after I reviewed the work of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, George Condo and others. Their work was an inspiration to me and I started to focus on impressionism, surrealism and abstract art, bringing my own originality and unique character to my paintings. I have completed more than 100 paintings of different genres as I have also moved residence – from Cary to Norfolk in Virginia to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania to Austin in Texas, finally landing in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am now looking forward to exhibiting my art on in canvas and print medium to reach a large swathe of the world population and provide universal access.
