About Art and Artist

As a painter I am interested in making the work of the soul more visible and real, enriching our everyday lives. It is in these moments when our soul speaks to us in a quiet, perhaps even a silent voice - wielding great power and influence at both a conscious and unconscious level. A primary role of my art is to provide clarity and insight into issues of soul as inherent elements of man's role in creation. As awareness and consciousness increases, so does the clarity with which we are able to perceive the exquisite beauty and wholeness of creation.

Ultimately, art acts as both a mirror and a lens that gives presence and visibility to that which previously was unseen, unknown and not understood, often residing in the underground of the conscious. It is worthy to note that in this endeavor one learns that - the perception of all great beauty always has an element of "strangeness" and in its ex-pression is an opportunity to truly know the perfection of all creation. Painting is a universal language and its truths are accessible to all who view an image regardless of culture, nationality, age, language or status in life. The paintbrush is a tool that crosses cultures, breaks boundaries and grants access and connections that are not available through any other means. In my work as a painter I seek ex-pression and a deeper knowledge of these issues and in that pursuit a profound experience of being intensely alive.

It is here that one’s life has resonance within our innermost being, knowing the intense rapture of life. By following our passion and our bliss and by being willing to enter the "underground", we find paths that have been there all the while, waiting for each of us. The life we live becomes the life we should be living and one has the opportunity to know the fire of passion and the continuing renewal of the life within. On this wondrous path, being an artist makes me become an instrument of story telling, spirituality, faith, seeing, knowing, exploration and celebration.

New Delhi, Aug. 12 (UNI) A self taught artist, Aditya Dev Sharma uses colours to explore human relationships on canvas. This is evident at his ongoing solo show at the AIFACS art gallery here especially a painting titled “Don’t Leave Me” where he man as he hurries away. Man Love Freedom, while women tend to hold on to a relationship with all her love and care. She can make any kind of relations beautiful, whereas a man is dutiful; he has responsibilities, so even while loving his woman he tries to move away. But craving his love, the woman tries to hold him, Aditya said about the painting. About the overwhelming presence of women in his works, which tend to switch between realistic touches and the abstract, he said, “Women always become the main character in my sketches because no creation is possible without a woman, I feel women are the strongest, they can rule the world. The can break all barriers, fight, struggle and make an effort to win – which I have portrayed in my sketch “Journey In Progress” This painting depicts a nude, standing resolutely against a backdrop of chaos and the work gives an effect of having been chiseled out of stone. As many as 140 paintings are on display at the exhibition concluding on August 14.

Asked how he manages to balance his career as a manufacturer of rubber products and amateur artist, Aditya smiled. After they day’s struggle, when the night comes, I get the spiritual force to express my thoughts. The fight going in my mind gets resolved and my brush just moves bringing out my feelings, he explained. In his 25 years of artistic journey, he has experimented with ink, pen, oils, acrylic and water colours, trying out various kinds of layers and textures. Presently I have a strong hold on acrylic colours. I also like to paint in black and white ink, which shows the origin of mind with the movement of sound, he said. Aditya has also been dabbling in Hindi poetry during his leisure hours for almost 20 years. I have taken both painting and poetry as a medium to express myself. Even though I started it as a hobby, poetry has been always the source of inspiration for my sketches. It gives me the depth, the passion to go beyond imagination and express my emotion, my anger and my love through paintings. ‘Bheed Ki Barf’, his second collection of poems illustrated with sketches was also released during the current exhibition. About the title, he said ‘Bheed’ (Crowd) is like ice, it is so thick but melts away after some time. Asked about his favourite colours, he said, “my artistic colour is black. I feel it captures the whole world and it supports other colours.

The outside world is small but inside us the world is vast. And this colour make us feel about our inner world.” He said one of his paintings titled “The Strength of Inner Power” has been selected by the AIFACS Art Gallery for their annual function. Priced at Rs. 67 lach, it is also on display along with his other picture that carry a minimum price of Rs. 13,000/- About his artistic inspirations, Aditya named MF Hussain as the foremost. “Hussain Sahab is a person who have completely changed the definition of art. I want to be a big painter like him, he had made an honest effort and succeeded

Aditya Dev born on 14th Aug 1967 is a self taught artist Whose imagery works are individualized and Spontaneous representing a pictorial form of language with poetic metaphors maintaining a very balanced trapeze with his roles of an emotional poet and an adventurous painter, all converged in degrees that are apparent to those who care to see beyond mere surface. The artist dreams his paintings and then paints his dreams !!! His works depict the human desires as a reaction to the world he lives in.

A thrilling spark which expresses different emotions in a simple way by r endering his moods in true forms. His works depict the surrealistic world of fantasy, beauty of nature, spirituality, colorful dreams and beautiful bondings of flora and fauna basically having tools of feminism and a variety of mediums. He sketches his characters in such a whimsical position looking perfectly mingled with each other emerging as an array of thoughts. His infinite permutations of images bring forth an unheard sequences of emotions and delight. In his paintings he starts with conscious steps to look at himself and his surroundings from secret vantage positions but gradually, he flows only to discover that he is actually floating. It is this freedom that catches sensitivity of his heart. Here the choice of colors takes a turn from spiritually yellow and vibrant red to hazy blue and transparent brown. The textures take on gentler tone as they meld seamlessly to create images that are sparkly sensual and passionate as well. Aditya as an artist knows the depth of feelings, the process, where he goes below the earth which is either frigid or volatile.

The painter draws the unending movement of sound through its unknown origin mainly in his black & white works. As a poet he continuously de-constructs the words to construct something new and different in his paintings. That is the confidence, when he enjoys in his paintings the possibility of discovering a form and pattern beyond its borders. The hues of works will shower all with blissful joy and positive aspirations