Wonderland at the Movies
Medium
Acrylic and Gold Foil on Canvas
Size
36" x 24" inches
Year of creation
2024
Base
Canvas
About the Artist
Simple Mohanty’s passion for art since childhood saw her trying to capture the fascinating beauty of nature- whether azure skies, the play of light and shade on foliage, or the multi-hued iridescence of flowers- on paper. As a creative artist, she has been deeply touched by the beauty, balance, rhythm, resilience and vibrant colours of nature and natural cycles, which find their ways of manifesting in the bustle of human life and culture as well. She is drawn towards subjects that reflect these- they could be flowers, water bodies, animals, still-life or people in the midst of any or all of these. Her subjects, are therefore, organically connected to nature. She tries to capture on canvas the very soul, vitality and life-force of the subjects, whose beauty moves her. Starting with water colours, her first love due to the translucency of the medium, she has found it equally exciting to venture into oils, acrylics and pen and ink on canvas, at ease with both brush and spatula. The subject, style and strokes of her works are closest to the impressionistic & expressionistic genres, although rooted in representationalism, she has been taking baby steps towards abstraction. She has been part of several group art shows in India and abroad including the International Lalit Kala Mela, at Lalit hotel's Art Junction, Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, AIFACS, CSOI art gallery and RPR gallery.
