Sejal Mody

I fell painting is a continuous process even when I don’t have my material with me, I keep doing it in my mind most of the time, whenever I see something that inspires me it gets registered in my mind in the form of an image. Sometimes I find this inspiration in nature (flowers, butterflies & scenic beauty) or sometimes in someone else’s work or in books. If something strikes me, mostly colours’ then that gets registered and keeps working in my mind. Not keeping them the way they are and modify them in my own way.

When I think of painting I don’t think of the space in the canvas alone, but also the space around the canvas because I feel a painting gives a meaning not merely to the canvas but also to the walls on which it is hung. So the situation to which the painting is put is equally important. I think of a painting in terms of architecture, this could be because my father was an architect.

“Towards freedom is the direction that my work takes.”

It’s like a flowing river,

my ideas, thoughts and emotions,

they build up like those high currents

in the river and then after sometime

if you let them flow with the current

they will become calm and serene.

But one thing should never stop, the flow,

if that flow stops, the water becomes stagnant

and then you stop growing.

- Sejal Mody