Vadehra Art Gallery presents Offering, a solo exhibition of artworks by artist Chameli Ramachandran. The exhibtion is a presentation of watercolour paintings taken from the artist’s oeuvre from around a decade ago.
Chameli Ramachandran nurtures an immersive and entrancing relationship with nature, which strikes as an impulse to paint the skeletal and spiritual structures of different varieties of flowers, clusters of shrubbery and the canopies of trees over and over again. In her nature studies, Chameli expands the symbolic vocabulary of these pastoral elements and their parts – through a long list of protagonists, including various kinds of lilies, chrysanthemums, carnations, orchids, hibiscus, silk cotton and crotons among others – by viewing them as metaphors for life and death. She notes their sudden budding or blooming as a celebratory arrival of beauty, grace and fragrance, only to wilt shortly thereafter.
Find out more about the show here.