Divine Blooms-22500a

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Divine Blooms-22500a

Artist

Baljit Chadha

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Painting - Mix Media On Paper

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Float On Colors;-visitor-7-Lakhs uploads-22000 original paintings
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Enjoy my new series of organic paintings, using charcoal, leaves, and other materials that all originate from nature and the Earth.
I am a Delhi based artist, who has developed a new technique- "Baljit" (Float on colours) for all my paintings .
I grew up as a curious, investigative child helped by my parents' encouragement to explore and to learn without fear and hesitation. My wonder and awe in God's creation always held me spell bound. I followed my curiosity through my love of creation and creativity. At a young age of nineteen years I sailed to a land called Japan that has for long centuries been spiritually bound with India. Like a sleepy rose the petals of my creativity opened as I drank like a honey-bee the nectar of ancient and highly evolved culture of Japan. The Japanese art of painting is highly meditative in feel and in expression. My Japanese godmother Ms.Otha Miyoko, a great Japanese artist was my first teacher. She affected my style and expression early on.
My journey in art continued and I evolved a style of art that is minimalist in feeling and expression. The rapidity and quickness of expression in my art comes from the well of inner spirituality. My art is not planned, thought-out and cerebral, it is based on spontaneity. Abstract Expressionism is a wider term and my art follows it in a variety dimensions.
In my art I experiment with different painting instruments and techniques. My dependence on brushwork is rather limited. I frequently and freely use spatulas, wooden sticks, masking, and sand-mix, push bottles and what comes handy in the moment. I use acrylic with mixed media. I have developed acrylic based glazes that were possible earlier only with oil paints. These glazes impart a charm similar to enamel glazes.
My art journey finds depth and width in continuous experimentation, forays into the unknown and choosing challenging metaphors of expression.
As for where my art journey will take me next I leave to higher forces. Presently I have already displayed 12,000 paintings as a Wall of Divine Flowers in Delhi on 12/12/12, 12:12''12. This exhibition set a world record for the most flower paintings in one art exhibition. All of the paintings were later donated to the Smile Foundation, which works to educate girls in India.
My new series of work is titled: "Heavenly Flowers"
Commentary on my work:
"He paints strongly expressionist abstracts. His works command substantial interest among art lovers and have formed part of many exhibitions. He uses less brushes, and more different materials such as spatulas / wooden sticks & masking liquid/ tapes, push bottles.and a special paper."
"In the floral work of Baljit Chadha, his pathway began with basic flowers, in pen and ink due to the inspiration of classic sumi-e (ink painting) during his sojourn in Japan.He understood this as the simple, basic embrace of nature: to pluck a flower and paint it! Pursuing this spirit further, he declares that "I do not believe in straight lines, rather a spontaneous use of colour." He is more known in artistic circles to date in India for his abstract paintings. This series, thus introduces his 12,000 flower oeuvres. Earlier he added colour and then fexicol to bind the ink. Currently, he has incorporated the
following materials into his process: watercolour, acrylic paint, as well as oil and wax pastels. This melange enables a broader depiction of the living element of his floral subjects, such that these blossoms spring to life off the standard sized Chinese imported paper upon which he steadfastly works."
"Chadha incorporates his personal embrace of abstraction within the depiction of the "divine flower". Thereby extending the spatial component and filling the surrounding air with colour and stroke. His idiosyncratic method, reminiscent of spin/action painting, is to squeeze the paint from plastic bottles. Pansies, gladiolas, lilies, asters, hyacinths, to cite but a few, each flower painting is unique. In spirit they are homage to Chadha's passion to paint. Just as for the Old Master painters of still-lives and floral subjects, each flower imparts his personal connection and interpretation. The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Society also penned a tome on the significance and meaning of flowers. Chadha earlier had photographed flowers all over the world, as part of his journeys and daily life. The kinetic nature of his paintingsdeparts from the photographic lens."
"In consideration of the palette and use of materials, Chadha's works bear a shimmering sensibility akin to that of stained glass, a sort of translucence reflecting his rhythm of life. One which he shares with the facets of nature he so consecrates on a daily basis, a true immersion in this realm of his natural imagination."
"For Chadha, this lexicon of intimate and universal beauty celebrates the diverse and complex, ever startling web of the interconnectivity of life. At its core, a true marveling of the "Adavaita",the non-duality of humanity and the natural world which surrounds us, onewhich we must heed to protect and admire.
" -Elizabeth Rogers


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