Collection: Social and Documentary

This painting, “Village Girl with Bird,” portrays a peaceful moment from rural life, highlighting the simple and emotional relationship between human beings and nature. The young village girl is seated beneath a large tree, quietly interacting with a small bird resting on her hand. This gentle connection represents trust, freedom, innocence, and harmony between humans and birds. The girl's calm expression and relaxed posture create a feeling of silence and inner peace. The large tree acts as a protective presence, symbolizing strength, shelter, continuity, and the deep connection between village life and nature. The falling leaves suggest the changing seasons and the continuous cycle of life. The traditional clothing and rural surroundings connect the figure to Indian village culture and everyday life. The green and blue colour palette creates a fresh, natural atmosphere, while the warm tones of the girl and the bird bring emotional focus to the composition.

The Evening Ritual” portrays a quiet and intimate moment from everyday village life, focusing on the beauty of family, tradition, care, and companionship. The central figures are two women sharing a simple evening moment. One woman gently combs and arranges the other’s hair, creating a feeling of affection, trust, and closeness. This simple act becomes a symbol of the emotional bonds within a family and the traditions passed from one generation to another. The goat resting beside the woman adds another important element of rural life. It represents the close relationship between people and animals in a village environment, where animals are naturally part of everyday family life. The earthen pots and glowing lamp strengthen the sense of an evening village setting. The lamp represents warmth, home, hope, and continuity, while the traditional pots connect the painting to rural culture and a simpler way of living.

This painting, “Village Girl with Bird,” portrays a peaceful moment from rural life, highlighting the simple and emotional relationship between human beings and nature. The young village girl is seated beneath a large tree, quietly interacting with a small bird resting on her hand. This gentle connection represents trust, freedom, innocence, and harmony between humans and birds. The girl's calm expression and relaxed posture create a feeling of silence and inner peace. The large tree acts as a protective presence, symbolizing strength, shelter, continuity, and the deep connection between village life and nature. The falling leaves suggest the changing seasons and the continuous cycle of life. The traditional clothing and rural surroundings connect the figure to Indian village culture and everyday life. The green and blue colour palette creates a fresh, natural atmosphere, while the warm tones of the girl and the bird bring emotional focus to the composition.

Farmers is an ode to the backbone of rural Karnataka - its women farmers. Four central female figures, draped in green, white and patterned Ilkal sarees, carry baskets of produce with quiet grace, while children and shepherds guide goats through fields of jowar and sunflower. The intense red backdrop signifies both the harsh sun and the life-force of the land. Rendered in semi-figurative style with earthy tones and bold outlines, the painting weaves together human, animal and crop into one moving family. It documents a daily migration that is both labor and ritual, where harvest is not just food, but identity.

Village Market freezes the weekly Santhe where economy meets social ritual. At centre, a woman in red blouse sits with baskets of oranges, eggs and kumkum, negotiating with a woman in green saree holding a woven box. To the right, a proud woman carries a rooster for sale, her pink shopping bag bright against orange saree. Around them, girls in long skirts, vendors, and shoppers fill the red-walled lane. The foreground steel paraat full of fruits anchors the scene. Painted in my semi-cubist narrative style with bold red and patchwork sarees, this 2024 SOLD work celebrates women as traders, mothers and custodians of the local bazaar.

Folk Music archives a vanishing tradition - the wandering folk performers of North Karnataka. At centre, a dark-skinned woman in white saree holds a decorated tambura, her face marked with bold red-yellow tilak. Beside her, a dhol player in striped shirt and white cap, women in green and blue patchwork sarees, and two children with small drums form a moving choir. Their bodies are elongated, semi-cubist, adorned with simple jewelry. The vermillion backdrop with distant fort-like structures situates them on a village street. Painted in 2025 and now SOLD, the work celebrates music as livelihood, devotion and collective memory.

This 3x3 feet Farmers from 2026 is a compact, joyful version of my agrarian procession theme. Two women lead - one in orange saree with flower motifs, one in green with embroidered border - carrying baskets of harvest. Around them, a shepherd with a bullock, two boys with goats, and a girl in orange walk together. Sunflowers and jowar crop frame the lower edge, while the intense red backdrop unifies all. Painted with bold outlines and flat earthy tones, the goats are rendered with as much individuality as humans - because in village life, they are family.

Farmers (2026) expands my 2025 'Farmers' study into a 36x48 inch frieze of agrarian life. Two central women - one bearing firewood, the other fodder and produce - lead the procession. Around them, farmers with axe and lathi, children holding goat ropes, and sunflowers tower over the red horizon. My signature vermillion background now holds smoke-grey skies and wooden fences, suggesting both drought and resilience. The sarees are rendered as collages of village life - tiny huts, birds, pots. Painted in semi-cubist folk style, the work is about migration as survival, where every step home carries the weight and wealth of the land.

The fruit seller used green and yellow turbulence and very well colour balance composition and workmanship

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'Raan' - an ode to mother earth My visual art vocabulary has, through the years, been appreciated by many connoisseurs, and clientele alike. I have expressed it through a series of my sketches, paintings, and sculptures. This time around, I am displaying my works in a slightly different context. The accent this time stands inspired by the village folks, their dwellings, their farms, the crop harvest, and the elements of nature. Of course I have given them an appearance which would seem somewhat embellished, due to which I can project the aesthetic appeal I sense they possess. I am certain that the viewers will surely admire the amiability that lies within the paintings. In this series, the motivation behind my paintings comes from the title 'Raan' and all the contexts that derive from it. The word 'Raan' evokes great affection and is one that touches my inner feelings. I have since childhood lived and experienced the village life. There are many aspects of this rural life that strike a chord. For instance, the field, its pastures, the stones, boulders, the foliage, the flora; et al. I have grown up living among all these, in a natural ambience as it were. Obviously, farming is a motif that is so close to my heart. Today, although I lead a rather urban and civic life, there is no doubt that I would like to go back to farming sometime in the future. The childhood memories and experiences of everyone manifest themselves in their lives ahead. Farming as such, being entirely dependent on the vascillations of nature, is at the behest of elements such as the sunshine, the air and most importantly, the rains. Its varying moods affect goodly or badly depending on their intensity; consequently and crucially affecting the survival of the farmer. I have closely observed and experienced that this unpredictability does not affect as much any other constituent in the social strata, as it does the farmer. These vagaries of nature have coloured my life intensely. The core of my paintings hence has turned out to essentially be 'the pictures of a rural life and the farmer'. I have tried to impress in my paintings, the apparent seasonal changes in nature, and thereby, the changing hue of the soil. This shift in the hues of the soil mesmerizes me, and has influenced in developing the colour scheme of my works in this series. The style of my paintings and sculpture, with a certain tonal brightness, ought to be pretty familiar to my viewers. In the current display though, the colours are derived from influences such as the village turf, soil; with all its hues and textures. I eagerly hope that this transformation in the colour scheme will definitely connect with my viewers. I find myself always inclined to project in my works, human figures involved in their simple daily acts, with the backdrop of nature. There is a modesty, a cadence in the actions of these human activities, and a grace in the elements of human life, which I have aspired to portray in my current exhibition. I sincerely desire, that you will connect pleasantly and whole heartedly with the glimpses of glorious memories of my life in a hamlet. Anand Panchal

*Raan'-an ode to mother earth My visual art vocabulary has, through the years, been appreciated by many connoisseurs, and clientele alike. I have expressed it through a series of my sketches, paintings, and sculptures. This time around, lam displaying my works in a slightly different context. The accent this time stands inspired by the village folks, their dwellings, their farms, the crop harvest, and the elements of nature. Of course have given them an appearance which would seem somewhat embellished, due to which I can project the aesthetic appeal I sense they possess. I am certain that the viewers will surely admire the amiability that lies within the paintings. In this series, the motivation behind my paintings comes from the title " Raan' and all the contexts that derive from it. The word 'Raan' evokes great affection and is one that touches my inner feelings. I have since childhood lived and experienced the village life. There are many aspects of this rural life that strike a chord. For instance, the field, its pastures, the stones, boulders, the foliage, the flora; et al. I have grown up living among all these, in a natural ambience as it were. Obviously, farming is a motif that is so close to my heart. Today, although I lead a rather urban and civic life. there is no doubt that I would like to go back to farming sometime in the future. The childhood memories and experiences of everyone manifest themselves in their lives ahead. Farming as such, being entirely dependent on the vascillations of nature, is at the behest of elements such as the sunshine, the air and most importanly, the rains. Its varying moods affect goodly or badly depending on their intensity: consequently and crucially affecting the survival of the farmer. I have closely observed and experienced that this unpredictability does not affect as much any other constituent in the social strata, as it does the farmer. These vagaries of nature have coloured my life intensely. The core of my paintings hence has turned out to essentially be 'the pictures of a rural life and the farmer" I have tried to impress in my paintings, the apparent seasonal changes in nature, and thereby, the changing hue of the soil. This shift in the hues of the soil mesmerizes me, and has influenced in developing the colour scheme of my works in this series. The style of my paintings and sculpture, with a certain tonal brightness, ought to be pretty familiar to my viewers. In the current display though, the colours are derived from influences such as the village turf, soil; with all its hues and textures. I eagerly hope that this transformation in the colour scheme will definitely connect with my viewers. I find myself always inclined to project in my works, human figures involved in their simple daily acts, with the backdrop of nature. There is a modesty, a cadence in the actions of these human activities, and a grace in the elements of human life, which I have aspired to portray in my current exhibition. I sincerely desire, that you will connect pleasantly and whole heartedly with the glimpses of glorious memories of my life in a hamlet. Anand

*Raan'-an ode to mother earth My visual art vocabulary has, through the years, been appreciated by many connoisseurs, and clientele alike. I have expressed it through a series of my sketches, paintings, and sculptures. This time around, lam displaying my works in a slightly different context. The accent this time stands inspired by the village folks, their dwellings, their farms, the crop harvest, and the elements of nature. Of course have given them an appearance which would seem somewhat embellished, due to which I can project the aesthetic appeal I sense they possess. I am certain that the viewers will surely admire the amiability that lies within the paintings. In this series, the motivation behind my paintings comes from the title " Raan' and all the contexts that derive from it. The word 'Raan' evokes great affection and is one that touches my inner feelings. I have since childhood lived and experienced the village life. There are many aspects of this rural life that strike a chord. For instance, the field, its pastures, the stones, boulders, the foliage, the flora; et al. I have grown up living among all these, in a natural ambience as it were. Obviously, farming is a motif that is so close to my heart. Today, although I lead a rather urban and civic life. there is no doubt that I would like to go back to farming sometime in the future. The childhood memories and experiences of everyone manifest themselves in their lives ahead. Farming as such, being entirely dependent on the vascillations of nature, is at the behest of elements such as the sunshine, the air and most importanly, the rains. Its varying moods affect goodly or badly depending on their intensity: consequently and crucially affecting the survival of the farmer. I have closely observed and experienced that this unpredictability does not affect as much any other constituent in the social strata, as it does the farmer. These vagaries of nature have coloured my life intensely. The core of my paintings hence has turned out to essentially be 'the pictures of a rural life and the farmer" I have tried to impress in my paintings, the apparent seasonal changes in nature, and thereby, the changing hue of the soil. This shift in the hues of the soil mesmerizes me, and has influenced in developing the colour scheme of my works in this series. The style of my paintings and sculpture, with a certain tonal brightness, ought to be pretty familiar to my viewers. In the current display though, the colours are derived from influences such as the village turf, soil; with all its hues and textures. I eagerly hope that this transformation in the colour scheme will definitely connect with my viewers. I find myself always inclined to project in my works, human figures involved in their simple daily acts, with the backdrop of nature. There is a modesty, a cadence in the actions of these human activities, and a grace in the elements of human life, which I have aspired to portray in my current exhibition. I sincerely desire, that you will connect pleasantly and whole heartedly with the glimpses of glorious memories of my life in a hamlet. Anand

*Raan'-an ode to mother earth My visual art vocabulary has, through the years, been appreciated by many connoisseurs, and clientele alike. I have expressed it through a series of my sketches, paintings, and sculptures. This time around, lam displaying my works in a slightly different context. The accent this time stands inspired by the village folks, their dwellings, their farms, the crop harvest, and the elements of nature. Of course have given them an appearance which would seem somewhat embellished, due to which I can project the aesthetic appeal I sense they possess. I am certain that the viewers will surely admire the amiability that lies within the paintings. In this series, the motivation behind my paintings comes from the title " Raan' and all the contexts that derive from it. The word 'Raan' evokes great affection and is one that touches my inner feelings. I have since childhood lived and experienced the village life. There are many aspects of this rural life that strike a chord. For instance, the field, its pastures, the stones, boulders, the foliage, the flora; et al. I have grown up living among all these, in a natural ambience as it were. Obviously, farming is a motif that is so close to my heart. Today, although I lead a rather urban and civic life. there is no doubt that I would like to go back to farming sometime in the future. The childhood memories and experiences of everyone manifest themselves in their lives ahead. Farming as such, being entirely dependent on the vascillations of nature, is at the behest of elements such as the sunshine, the air and most importanly, the rains. Its varying moods affect goodly or badly depending on their intensity: consequently and crucially affecting the survival of the farmer. I have closely observed and experienced that this unpredictability does not affect as much any other constituent in the social strata, as it does the farmer. These vagaries of nature have coloured my life intensely. The core of my paintings hence has turned out to essentially be 'the pictures of a rural life and the farmer" I have tried to impress in my paintings, the apparent seasonal changes in nature, and thereby, the changing hue of the soil. This shift in the hues of the soil mesmerizes me, and has influenced in developing the colour scheme of my works in this series. The style of my paintings and sculpture, with a certain tonal brightness, ought to be pretty familiar to my viewers. In the current display though, the colours are derived from influences such as the village turf, soil; with all its hues and textures. I eagerly hope that this transformation in the colour scheme will definitely connect with my viewers. I find myself always inclined to project in my works, human figures involved in their simple daily acts, with the backdrop of nature. There is a modesty, a cadence in the actions of these human activities, and a grace in the elements of human life, which I have aspired to portray in my current exhibition. I sincerely desire, that you will connect pleasantly and whole heartedly with the glimpses of glorious memories of my life in a hamlet. Anand

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A subjective description of Bharat in the style of my new series titled "Night"

Crawford Market, with its grand colonial design, bustles with trade and movement. Inside, porters labour with quiet strength, carrying goods through the lively stalls. My work reflects this blend of heritage, human effort, and the city’s enduring spirit.

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.

Part of the Visual Testimony series, this painting serves as a visual meditation on awareness and transformation. Inspired by Indian philosophical thought, it encourages viewers to move beyond representation and experience the work through contemplation, intuition, and personal reflection.