The heart perceives and experiences, the mind soaks them up and stores, and an artful metamorphosis happens

The heart perceives and experiences, the mind soaks them up and stores, and an artful metamorphosis happens. The soulful journey of the artist is through the highway of such experiences that overflow spontaneously onto the canvas, their true essence recalled and reflected in flashes of paints and colour. The artist captures the ethereal, the sublime, which is the portrayal of life itself. This is what we get to watch in "EYES SEES – HEART PERCEIVES" an exhibition of paintings by Delhi based artist SHUCHI KHANNA at Studio Vasant, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi.

On the occasion of opening ceremony artist Shuchi Khanna, Shamshad Hussain (Sr. artist & son of renowned artist M.F. Hussain), Soniya Jaitly (Fashion Designer), Ashwin Aishwarya (Founder Director – Global Art Village), Probir Sikdar (Sr. Artist), Dr. Mukesh Jaitly (Dentist – Orthodontist), Baljit Chaddha (Director – Studio Vasant), Victor Vijay Kumar (Art curator & painter), Ronita Chatterjee (Gallery Manager – Studio Vasant) were present there.

The artist is exposed to various facets of life, as a daughter, wife, mother, and teacher and above all as a Woman in this Man’s World. She seeks to express as it were the day & night of life.

While the artist is aware, even if she does not endorse Shakespeare’s view that “This life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”, she believes in the Wordsworthian sensitivity to the greener side of life -- “In small proportions we just beauties see and in short measures life may perfect be”. This series is, in such short proportions, an amalgamation of a cascading medley of feelings emerging from inner space as agony and ecstasy and much else that the viewer too may see, imagine or conjure!

THE THOUGHT BEHIND SHUCHI KHANNA’S PAINTINGS

Drawing from the core of her femininity, guided by the soul of spiritual quests, Shuchi Khanna is a multi dimensional Artist in the real sense of the term. The young artist steps out from the universal patterns to articulate a life through her canvas and colors. She stimulates her brush mainly to convey relations among Men, Women, and the Nature, beyond boundaries of thought. She dexterously conveys that women are the Creators & they glue the world together. She uses extra splashes of pastel colors in her works. But let the placid shades not beguile. She subtly brandishes the brush as a plume, which could well be a hard sell reminder of the chaos of the times. Her paintings speak a lot about Women Empowerment without harsh & obvious confrontation with the nature. Her paintings are an effective mix of Divinity, Hope and Inspiration. The essence of her work is not lost into the labyrinths of ingenious strokes. If she gives a chorus of the protagonist, she supports the thought of her piece with strong colors. This lends her intellect a quality that directs towards a curiosity. Her fields are anywhere, from Ceramic surfaces, Cement Walls to Clay pots & Wooden Doors. From Hand Made/Art Papers to Canvas & Wooden Boards. Apart from women, she inculcates the presence of mysticism in her works, as evidenced in her ‘Gayatri Mantra series ... The ‘OM’ touching sacred beads only gives out the message of the presence of the Lord and the Almighty. These symbols, nonchalantly cast into the background of a blush of colors, artistically convey the blueprints of existence and suggest, quietly, the insignia of life.

She is Delhi University graduate & a qualified Commercial Artist who underwent further training in the Creative Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi. She qualified for the degree of Bachelor of Education from the Allahabad University.She accredits herself for being a free-lance graphic designer and counselor for reputed advertising agencies. Presently SHUCHI heads the Department of Fine arts at the Sanskriti School, a prestigious School in Delhi. She teaches Applied Art to classes Eleven and Twelve.