The Forest

The forest took just under 6 months to paint. It is an imagined ancient British woodland inhabited by birds and animals that lived or once lived in the British isles. It is the product of applying techniques, principles and ways of seeing learnt in India and at the Prince's school to the natural world I see around me.

The ochre colours were collected from a cave in Wales (Clearwell caves). Malachite, Lapis and cinnebar stones were ground for other colours.

The piece was inspired by the medieval sentiments of St Thomas Aquinas when he said "art is the imitation of nature in her manner of operation"

This painting received the runner up prize in the Art in action fair 2014.

Hand made paint on hand made paper
93 x 75 cm

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Animal Tower

A cast list from 'The Forest'. All the animals from 'The Forest' painting have got themselves into a tower.

Handmade pigment paint & watercolour on handmade paper
70 x 19cm

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Painting a Horse Chestnut Tree

Study sheet displaying the process of painting an English tree in an Indian way.

35 x 45 cm

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Chestnut Tree in Victoria Park

Handmade pigment on antique paper
50 x 39 cm

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Orange Tree from Cordoba

Gouache on antique paper
34 x 30 cm

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Spring

Gouache on handmade paper
33 x 34 cm

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Leaf from the Tree of Paradise

This painting is 6ft tall. This image is inspired by a hadith (saying of the prophet) I came across that says;

“In Paradise there is a tree in whose shade a horseman would be able to ride for a hundred years,”

The is just one leaf from that tree.

Handmade pigment paint & watercolour on dyed indigo linen
70 x 94 cm

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Below
Everything

Shell gold on indigo paper
65 x 50 cm

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10,000 Seeds

23 carat shell gold paint on indigo dyed paper.
36 x 36 cm

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Oceans

Silver paint on Indigo paper
33 x 33 cm

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Coral Tree

Ochre on indigo paper
33 x 33 cm

Row of Trees

This painting is a collaboration with Vinita Sharma. My design, Vinita’s execution. Hand made Pigment paint on hand made paper.

Handmade paint on handmade paper
34 x 73 cm

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Border Design

This border design was painted using hand made paint with both natural and synthetic pigmnts. Some semi precious stones were used including Lapis Lazuli, Malachite and Cinnibar. I also used the synthetic colours Chrome Yellow, and French Ultramarine.

I learnt how to make paints using natural pigments both from my tutor Ajay Sharma in Jaipur and also from David Cranswick who is a visiting tutor at The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, he also runs amazing workshops as part of the open programme course at the school

39 x 50 cm

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Yogi and Disciple Under a Tree

An Ash smeared Yogi and devotee sit under a tree beneath a crescent moon on a calm and still night.

This image was painted in an Indian miniature class at The Princes School of Traditional Arts. I am grateful to our tutor; the master Pichhwai painter Desmond Lazaro for his guidance and expert insight. And his selection of beautiful pigments prepared in Pondicherry.

Kedar Ragini, Natural pigment paint on antique paper.

18 x 15 cm