Inherited Landscapes

Inherited Landscapes begins with a commitment: to engage consciously with what we carry.

Some of what we carry was given with love. Some of it was absorbed before we had the language to question it, beliefs, expectations, and ways of seeing shaped so early they feel like our own until, one day, they don’t. These are the harder questions this collection sits with. Not to resolve them, but to look at them clearly. Each painting draws on the visual language of traditional Indian painting, the ornamental detail and gold work of Mysore painting, woven into a contemporary landscape. The result is work that lives in two worlds at once: rooted in a cultural inheritance, reaching toward something new. It is the slow, deliberate work of engaging consciously.

These paintings are made in layers, surface built up with chalk paste and worked in stages with sketching, embossed patterns, and gold foil applied with intention. The process mirrors the inquiry: nothing here is arrived at quickly, and nothing is resolved neatly. Inherited Landscapes is an ongoing collection and an ongoing dialogue.