Tara Sabharwal’s Lush Lands Tara Sabharwal’s Lush LandsA quick glance at artist Tara Sabharwal’s 23 artworks on display at Art Alive Gallery brings back a flood of childhood memories, of creating dots, irregular lines and large circles using watercolours on paper, where the shapes are open to interpretation. With her latest show ‘The Open Window’, a departure from her signature figurative artists in the past, the 60-year-old artist says these abstractions mark a new direction in her artistic oeuvre. Just like mantra meditation, I go into space doing this.”‘The Open Window’ is a stage that Sabharwal finds herself currently in terms of her artistic development. I now want to go back to that open awareness and feeling, like that of an open window and a clean slate. Artist Tara Sabharwal Artist Tara SabharwalWith self-enquiry being her motivating goal, much like her teacher and friend Nasreen Mohamedi, the titles of Sabharwal’s works serve as a little tickle.

Source: Indian Express October 22, 2017 19:12 UTC