I relish creating realistic paintings, also enjoy watching other artists’ realistic art. Over my long career of Advertising, illustrations and photography have captured a significant part of my imagination. This process of framing a particular moment in life, thus preserving it for eternity, has always appealed to me!

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It has amazed me how an output of an advertising campaign, mostly the joint effort of multiple stakeholders- writing copy, drawing illustration and then designing lay out, generally don’t outlive a period of a fortnight, many a times. Many of these visuals are short lived, however as a realistic painting, it overcomes this constraint and can eternize a moment. It was the work of the noted American illustrator, Norman Rockwell, which opened my eyes to this possibility. In his time, he created several visuals as part of different advertising campaigns. However these illustrations became iconic with time, and are immortalized as they offer a window to the way of American life at that time. Many of his paintings are recreated and even reimagined as posters even today; this clearly shows how paintings can raise beyond the transient lifespan of an advertising campaign and be part of a much larger diaspora of art. This woke me up to the possibilities and potential of real life illustrations. Even though I couldn’t trace many of my work of the past, I realize that these skills still reside within me; hence as part of my exploration of self, I look within and delve deeper to recreate certain memories in an attempt to breathe an eternal life to one moment, at a time.