Nejal Mehta, "Cordyline"

Artist Statement

Over time and especially this past year like for many, the spaces and environment I’ve been confined to have played a significant role in the way that I create art. These paintings are a direct response to my surroundings, energies, frustration and motivations. Things we see every day and not actually see. Is there ever enough time in our everyday experience to pay attention? The opportunity presented to me now is one of time, to not have to be anywhere else but where I am. When given enough time, when the mind begins to fall into stillness, the stillness begins to come to life. This opportunity to slow down gave me a chance to take notice of changes, how light moves during the day, the decaying of leaves and sprouting of new buds; the way that things seem to take a new shape when our gaze shifts. We might feel that the object we are seeing has changed, but rather it is we who have changed.

Artist Bio

Nejal Mehta is an artist from India. After receiving her B.Sc in Economics, she went to Los Angeles and Barcelona to train in Classical Drawing and Painting. She is a figurative painter who works predominantly in the medium of oil but also includes charcoal for quick sketching and figure studies. Alongside the rigorous depiction from observation, she uses photographic references to study the abstraction of forms and color.

Drawer 4- Cordyline, Medium: Oil on Watercolour Paper, Size: 18cm x 25cm, Date: Februray 2021, Price: $300