Shreya Malani
I make art with the purpose to make people feel something. I strive to create an image of either a scene or a person that resonates with the experience of another. For example, I want to connect people’s travel experiences or childhood memories with a common factor. Although people have wildly different lives, I’ve noticed that there are key similarities with how we feel about specific events or respond to changes in our lives and I hope to be able to transfer this factor into my artwork. My ideas for artwork usually come to me at the most random of times – either when I’m crying about something silly, or if I’m about to finish the last bite of my pasta dinner, or if I’m driving with friends and jamming out to a song. I generally have an idea for what I want a piece to look like when I’m starting and I’ll plan a preliminary sketch of the composition, but my plan is constantly evolving during the timeline of a piece. I think of new ideas and incorporate them into my work, and I am also constantly starting over or making mistakes, which allow me to better discover what I want to create. I usually work with oil paints and a palette knife because I love the textured feel of oil painting and the layered paintings that I am able to create. Using a palette knife allows me to paint with a different degree of realism in each piece and its rough feel has a certain beauty about it that allows me to imbue more emotion in my artwork. Currently, I am working on multiple series of landscapes and portraits. I began the year with the purpose of creating abstract portraits of people, using themes that represent their life and realistic representation of the actual individual in order to show their diverse life stories. Now, I have started doing landscapes from my travels in Europe, India, and America. I chose this because I want to be able to capture the feeling of awe that any tourist feels in a foreign location when they come across a particularly beautiful monument or experience a perfect moment in a café. My ultimate goal is to convey slightly more abstract themes in very realistic pieces, and I am constantly struggling with how to approach such a complex challenge. However, my last pieces always influence my next and I am constantly learning as an artist, and I am looking forward to creating more art that resolves this challenge.
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