Category: Artthought
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Namita Sood: Emotional Expression
By Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Whenever an artist creates on canvas, they draw upon two kinds of experiences. The first is worldly experience, which encompasses human life and its structures; the second is emotional and intellectual experience, which includes not…
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A Choreography in Deep Green: Smitha M. Babu
Smitha M. Babu with Gulam Mohammad Shekh. Smitha M. Babu’s solo exhibition A Choreography in Deep Green was held at Vadehra Art Gallery from April 23 to May 15, 2026. Two aspects are especially significant in Smitha Babu’s art: her…
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Fragments, Disorder, and Consciousness: The Art of Sangam Peshawaria
“Art does not perform miracles; rather, it awakens consciousness. Whatever an artist creates is a reimagination and reconstruction of lived visual and conceptual experiences. In Sangam Peshawaria’s works, fragmented human forms, scattered domestic objects, and the subtle tonalities of graphite…
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Ragini Sinha: Flight of Life
Art, though born from personal expression, is deeply shaped by social experience. The works reflect this dynamic relationship between individual imagination and collective reality in Ragini Sinha’s work. From her early paintings of mushrooms symbolising family and social structures to…
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The Studio is an Artist’s Place of Tapasya
Members of the Quartz Collective Group Visit Ragini Sinha’s Studio Gitanjali Kashyap, Shikha Gupta, Nitasha Jaini, Neelam Gaur, Ragini Sinha, Ritu Aggarwal, Ritu Singh Panday, Saswati Chaudhuri, Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj and Sakshi Bajaj. On the afternoon of May 15,…
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City of Memory, Architecture, and Abstraction: The Art of Smita Jain
A city resides in memory—yet its identity remains undefined. Drawing from her travels across India and abroad, Smita Jain transforms lived experiences into a distinctive visual language. In her work, the city does not appear merely as a physical construct…
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Satish Sharma: The Aesthetics of Materiality and Contemplative Seeing : Ved Prakash Bhardwaj
Satish Sharma’s art is rooted in abstraction, materiality, and sensory experience rather than narrative or representation. His paintings and sculptures avoid direct imagery and instead invite viewers into a contemplative engagement with texture, surface, memory, and perception. Using materials such…
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The Universe Contained in a dot: Rashid Ahmad’s “Bindu: Dots Series”
Rashid Ahamad with guests. Everything is contained within a single dot—this is where creation begins and ultimately dissolves back into it. From the microscopic precision of scientific analysis to the vast observation of the cosmos, both the subtlety and the…

