Shruthi Nelson

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Shruthi Nelson 
Untitled 
Medium: Mixed media on acid-free paper & mirror 
Size: 30 x 22 in

This multi-faceted artist apart from experimented with sculpting and fashion design has handled various media with equal ease, watercolors on paper or acrylic on canvas and acrylic on garments. Indeed, the artist loves to experiment; she continuously explores and innovates, and does not follow a particular pattern or set into a mould. She has dabbled in textile designing as well, marking her impatience with the uniform rectangular flatness of the canvas and the passion to craft something that encases the human body.

She often works on several paintings at once, sometimes in different mediums. She doesn’t stop at painting, and expresses herself by pasting cutouts of animal figures over painted surfaces, burning paper, puncturing the surface in neat circles, and sticking sequins. Shruti Nelson’s paintings are infused with a boundless energy as she pours her heart out into her paintings. She uses layers and layers of colors, whether they are acrylic on canvas or the sensitive medium of watercolors on paper. Her hold over watercolors is especially remarkable.

She explores and innovates, and portrays her dreams with renewed zest. Her signature style is versatile: it contains her essence, and yet, is not repetitive. For this particular exhibition, she chose animals as a theme. This is perhaps not surprising considering the fact that she was a student of Zoology in Baroda. She has studied the psychology of animals and has closely observed wildlife.

Repetition - a favorite trope that the artist often employs - sees to it that they are customized into spaces that are far removed from their native Serengeti Plain. The humans that cohabit or share these spaces with the animals are from the world of glamour. The artist merges the real-life scenario with her imagination so that a viewer intrudes a world of familiar creatures placed in an unfamiliar setting. The latter is mesmerized by the fantasyland amidst the riot of imagery and the colors. The surface is worked in multiple layers and the teeming vibrancy of the creatures; drawn, painted, scribbled and embedded in it. Curiously, she treats the mount and the frames as surface, applying colors and sequins on them.

She works straight on the canvas with no preparatory drawings, filling up spaces with her drawings. She scribbles, superimposes, cuts and then drowns her images in broad swathes of color washes and just when the painting is on the verge of collapse under the ensuing chaos she sets about to rescue them. In fact, the artist 'identifies' with these characters subliminally. A desire to walk into the looking glass and emerge transformed in her personalized wonderland is unmistakable. She gives a vent to desire and intimate fantasies through her creations.
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