Being reasonable is standard operating wisdom, which has its place in our lives. However, for High Achievement centric thinking, the opposite seems to work. High achievement or anything out of the ordinary requires you to extend yourself outside your comfort…
For those three years that I hung around at my exhibition at the World Trade Center, I was in love with the lovely ambience and the feeling that that architecture created. I couldn’t stop wandering around admiring the nooks and…
“On the path of Love, we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of Master Painter.” I love this verse by Maulana Rumi because it beautifully clarifies the ultimate source…
I noticed a Gold Fish in the Abstract and threw a line to bring it inside the frame, and share it with you 🙂 The Gold fish is supposed to bring good luck and wealth according to Feng Shui and…
Creativity, in any discipline, much like painting, is one that comes in layers. It doesn’t happen all a once or is just dumped in one big load. It arrives in stages. You get the inspiration to do something, then you…
Painting large-scale works is a grueling process and it takes physical endurance, creative stamina, and a passionate heart, all of which need discipline and training. Sometimes, I have had to stand and paint for 14 hours a day, sometimes more,…
Why does society not encourage the profession of an artist? What’s the core issue? Why is it frowned upon traditionally speaking? These are tough questions that need to be answered. The very simplistic answer to this very deep-sounding question is…
For some unknown reason, I have always considered myself to be “heartist”, a hybrid word that I thought to have invented myself a couple of decades ago, to best describe and understand myself. I was always being led with the…
After spending six months in Oman, where I’d become tanned as if the sun had repainted me so to speak, I then decided to go to the UAE. Within a few months, I’d found a home studio from which to…
