Sindhu Kamath

Sindhu, meaning, Ocean in Sanskrit, articulates on her canvas the perceptions of our daily life: from the viewpoint of an artist. Heraclitus once said, you cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. Likewise, for an artist, no impression of an emotion, a colour or an incident, are ever the same. Every passing second brings along with itself a new interpretation of an existing situation, a newer light, a more enlightened vision. Through her paintings, Sindhu, portrays this experience on the canvas.

For Sindhu art deals with the essentials of life ,affirmation of the human spirit and thereby is a manifestation of our lives itself, perceived through the various hues of the essentials of our existence.

Art, in its simplest form, is the glory of expression, the magic of existence. An artist perceives the world as a canvas of imagination, colored by the creativity of experiences. To quote Henry Ward Beecher, ‘Every Artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures’.

An artist is responsible for presenting to the larger world the reflection of its true-self: the strokes created on a canvas are therefore never mere products of an artist’s imagination, freedom and ingenuity. Sindhu realized this as she embarked upon her expedition as an artist. Her works have evolved from being the playful pastime of a little girl to the deliberated attempts of a professional artist, influenced by the socio-economic-cultural situations that surround her and at large, the world: be it the mythological characters that enrich the upbringing of every child in India or the economies of the corporate world or the subtleties of our everyday lives that come to become a part of our very existence.

Having taken up fine arts as a hobby during childhood, it was perhaps the brilliance of the folklore, which is a way of life at Udupi that inspired Sindhu to pursue art as a career. To her, painting is a journey of discovery, more than a form of expression: a passage to the higher calling of self-discovery. The strokes on her canvas are essentially her perceptions of the vivacity of life, colored by the inseparable elements of spirituality, divinity and festivity. All these elements are indispensable to the Indian culture and more so, to the holy town of Udupi, the abode of Lord Krishna. The town, the magnificence of its tradition and the splendor of its music are manifested in every stroke that her brush creates.