" Art is life itself - life that I perceive in the bloom of a particular flower, in the texture and subtle tones of a petal, the magical rippling of leaves by an invisible breeze, and in the cry and swift movement of birds streaking across heavily-laden dark monsoon clouds. I study nature wherever I travel...and I select what I want to create depending on the space, the form and atmosphere. My search is to convey likeness through unlikeness...So I am creating the life of the spirit in the rhythm of things when I paint"
- Chameli Ramachandran
- Chameli Ramachandran
Exhibition Announcement
A long-awaited solo exhibition of drawings by artist Chameli Ramachandran, titled Flowers Bloom, Flowers Wither Away, Flowers Bloom Again on view at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-40 Defence Colony, through mid-February 2021.
Chameli Ramachandran has always nurtured an immersive and entrancing relationship with nature, which repeatedly strikes an impulse to paint the skeletal and spiritual structures of flowers over and over again. In this latest series of flower studies, Chameli expands her symbolic vocabulary of the flower and its parts by viewing them as metaphors for life and death. She notes their sudden budding as a celebratory arrival of beauty, grace and fragrance, only to wilt shortly thereafter. As Ella Datta writes, “She dwells on this image while remembering a song by Rabindranath Tagore, which says that in spite of sorrow, death, and pangs of parting, there is also peace, joy and even eternity. For Chameli, the illness and untimely death of Anjum Singh was the cause of a deep sadness. And so, the fleeting life of a blossom surfaces in a number of her paintings.”
A long-awaited solo exhibition of drawings by artist Chameli Ramachandran, titled Flowers Bloom, Flowers Wither Away, Flowers Bloom Again on view at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-40 Defence Colony, through mid-February 2021.
Chameli Ramachandran has always nurtured an immersive and entrancing relationship with nature, which repeatedly strikes an impulse to paint the skeletal and spiritual structures of flowers over and over again. In this latest series of flower studies, Chameli expands her symbolic vocabulary of the flower and its parts by viewing them as metaphors for life and death. She notes their sudden budding as a celebratory arrival of beauty, grace and fragrance, only to wilt shortly thereafter. As Ella Datta writes, “She dwells on this image while remembering a song by Rabindranath Tagore, which says that in spite of sorrow, death, and pangs of parting, there is also peace, joy and even eternity. For Chameli, the illness and untimely death of Anjum Singh was the cause of a deep sadness. And so, the fleeting life of a blossom surfaces in a number of her paintings.”
