Artist Milind Nayak’s relationship with colour is mercurial. Colours is his hands are shadows and sunlight, tangled branches of mystery and the profusion of spring. Whether he is using pastels, mixed media or even water colours, his colours are not self effacing. They proclaim the joy of life, of existence, theirs and ours.
They are not expressed through ‘things,’ objects, shapes but through feeling, emotion. He paints not what we see but what we feel when we look up and see the sky being held by branches and filtered through sunlit leaves, when we do not see sunlight but sense its presence in the way it edges everything and brings to life, the greenest of greens, dense foliage and tender pink flowers.
He paints moonlight. Its milky magic and the way it stirs and stills everything, even our perception. And the early morning purity of sunlight, and its caramel afternoon tints and the way it dabbles and paints its impressions on tree bark, ponds.
You hear the whisper of leaves, the thrum of creation and the sigh of sated silences in his works and he creates this resonant world with a palette that is primal, instinctive rather than studied. He is not an artist of method but of magical surges, tumult and peace, inspiration and exploration. An artist of Source and not just manifestation.
He is showing his latest series Consequences of Pure Colour at the Sublime Galleria, 8th floor, UB City, Vittal Mallaya Road, Bangalore.The show will be open for a month , excluding Sunday, till May 5.
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Reema Moudgil has been writing for magazines and newspapers on art, cinema, issues, architecture and more since 1994, is an RJ, hosts a daily Ghazal show, runs unboxed writers, is the editor of Chicken Soup for The Indian Woman’s soul, the author of Perfect Eight (http://www.flipkart.com/perfect-eight-9380032870/p/itmdf87fpkhszfkb?pid=9789380032870&_l=A0vO9n9FWsBsMJKAKw47rw–&_r=dyRavyz2qKxOF7Yuc ) and an artist.