P Shivani Bharadwaj’s acrylic & mixed media works reflect a serious modernist concern of using two dimensional spaces to create elements of depth and perspective that give one the feel of three dimensionality.
This she achieves by evolving oppositional elements and juxtaposing them to create a sense of the real; but as in all modernist painting, external reality is only a point of reference for an interplay of colour, texture and flow, giving her works the pulsating movement that brings them to life.
As a painter who draws inspiration from the masterly work of Shyamal Dutta Ray and Ganesh Haloi, she reflects the best this tradition has to offer in the context of our modern art. But it is to her credit that she is not influenced by them overwhelmingly but appears to be charting her own path with a sense of direction that will stand her in good stead in her future development as well.
Suneet Chopra
Art Critic/Writer
It’s a process and I am in it!
Art is an expression of your personality an introduction of yours with your true self.
This style in my work developed over years. I began with realistic work. I think that is the essence of your understanding art, shape, form and compositions. After experiencing for years I tried to modify it and gave it a new approach.
I think of paint as energy to be released through brushes and strokes, not as inert material to be worked and handled. I don’t work the paint; I aimed it and let it go. The result depends on the nature of my process and material: the thickness of the paint, the direction in which I threw it, the speed with which it hit the surface, the way it acted on the paint and the blank space already there. The surface thus created in this way is amazingly alive, rich and appealing to the senses.
Everything- figures and still objects- is broken up into angular wedges or facets. They are not flat or realistic, but shaded and motivated in a way that makes them somewhere between abstract and realism. At many places they are highlighted and stylised by horizontal lines and solid squares and rectangles. Few of my work on enormous boards not only allow me to paint merely with hand and arm action but with the motion of my whole body. It might be thought that a language with so limited a vocabulary would not enable its user to say very much.
Seeing with the inner eye of the imagination is more important than observing the world. I don’t leave things on chance rather I am inside the process from beginning to end.
P Shivani Bharadwaj
Art Appreciation Course from National Museum Institute, New Delhi. (1998)
Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from Sardar Patel College of Communication, New Delhi. (1996)
Master’s Degree in English (Literature) from Meerut University. (1994)
Had solo exhibition at Gallery Alternatives, Gurgaon in May, 2004.
Had solo exhibition at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre organized by Krishna’s Art Collection in October, 2005
Participated in group show, organized by Cancer Patients Aid Association, Mumbai in 2005
Participated in group show of Eminent Indian Artists, hosted by SudhArts.Net at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in August, 2006.
Participated in annual show of Lokayata: Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi in December, 2006.
Participated in group show of Eminent Indian Artists, hosted by SudhArts.Net at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in February, 2007.
Participated in group show ‘Rainbows in the Sun’, hosted by Planet Art Pvt. Ltd. & Ishat Art at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in May, 2007.
Had solo exhibition in July, 2007 at Planet Art Pvt. Ltd., Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi.
Participated in an Art Auction of 5 Artists during Hema Malini’s Dance Show at Siri Fort Auditorium in October, 2007.
Participated in group show organized by Artoholix Gallery at Lodhi Garden in November, 2007.
Participated in Annual Show of Lokayata: Mulk Raj Anand Centre, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi in December, 2007.
Participated in group show ‘Rainbows in the Sun’, hosted by Planet Art Pvt. Ltd. & Ishat Art at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in February, 2008.
Works bought over by ING Vysya Corporate Office, Bangalore
Bought over by Tulip InfoTech Corporate Office Delhi
Collected by various art connoisseurs in India and abroad.
