The Art by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj - HTML preview

The Art

or clearly defined. It can expand, dissolve, overlap, rhythms of plants or the contours of a landscape. In or recede, producing a sense of movement between this way, Singh’s paintings establish a dialogue between foreground and background and between the tangible what is seen and what is remembered.

and the imagined. Forms emerge and disappear within A distinctive feature of Singh’s practice is his this shifting spatial field, encouraging the viewer to exploration of light and its interaction with elusive, remain attentive to subtle changes in colour, texture, often unknown patterns. Light becomes both a and light.

formal device and a metaphorical force, animating His work consequently occupies an intriguing

the surface and creating a sense of movement, depth, space between abstraction and recognition. Although and luminosity. It appears to penetrate forms rather his paintings are abstract in their formal language, than simply illuminate them, creating a subtle tension they retain suggestive references to the natural world between transparency and density. At times, light and to lived experience. This ambiguity is an essential seems to emerge from within the painting itself, giving part of their appeal. The viewer is not presented with the surface an atmospheric quality and suggesting an a single, predetermined reading; instead, the paintings inner radiance that cannot be reduced to a naturalistic allow memories and associations to surface gradually.

representation of illumination.

A particular colour may recall a season, a luminous The shimmering passages of colour and shifting

passage may suggest sunlight reflected on water, and an forms invite viewers to look beyond the immediate arrangement of lines or forms may evoke the organic image and engage with the multiple layers of meaning 91