Why be an ARTIST?
What’s the role of an artist in the world? Is it to entertain, or to just decorate people’s spaces? Be a change maker or just a conversation piece? A businessman or a Con Artist? A joker or a philosopher? I…
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Learning & Unlearning
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” Carl Jung When you learn something tangible like a skill or…
My affair with Couches
They started long ago. when I joined Delhi University and was waiting to find decent accommodation on campus. In the meantime, a friend of my father offered me his office to sleep in when I didn’t want to travel a…
Layers of Creativity
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 is Hard Work?
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,…
Getting High on Thinking
Noor’s reference to Edward de Bono’s books like the Six Thinking Hats, it is evident that Noor has changed hats throughout his trajectory. Right from running his own ad company and managing creative accounts with a team of fifty people,…
Light vs Dark
“As an artist with his own ‘calling’ to paint, Noor decided to travel on this journey by self-educating himself in the processes and techniques that most artists learn in professional art institutions. Over the conversation, he counted 300 art books…
Adverts – the Art of the 80s
Advertising was the biggest art form practiced in the eighties and nineties. And it was like the womb for many other disciplines like film, writing, music, and other Fine Arts. Salman Rushdie was an advertising copywriter for many years before…
The Divine Loneliness
We ALL are alone within because we are born alone and die alone. Even the twins have this, they can have entirely different or same outlooks but that existential aloneness is very much the part of each of us. What…
The Spirit of Endurance
Life is not about the security of livelihood, but to have lived true to your calling or purpose. When someone gets excited and says I will go through whatever, and then lives up to it, then they embark on the…
The Anatomy of a HeArtist
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…
Framed by Art
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…