Artists / Writers:

Nandita Chaudhuri

My current work “A Journey and Back” explores and re-engages with various deep impressions and stored images snatched from life. Instances and nuances have been greedily devoured and etched into stored imprints and now they must find their way somehow into legible or illegible forms. They are gathered together as memories—fleeting, hiding and staring, as they rush to emote through brush and paint.

A greedily devoured nuance can be ‘real’ while being derived from the ‘unreal’ if there was an acceptable reality in any terminology. My constant, heightened sensitivity has etched poetry in alternating forms, sometimes translating into imagery and sometimes into wordless verse. Very often I am unable to view an object or person in accepted forms but they might resemble a box with a label, a blurry haze or an animal or bird in the absolute surreal. What I gather is only an essence. I feed on this essence. We surround ourselves with handpicked entities and objects whether they are relationships, a circuitous routine or an exploration. We then begin to define that imagery through limitations bound by that permutation in choice. My works will strive to cross beyond in expression and content.

Many of my compositions begin with a strong aura combined with emotional or rational comment that can only be appeased after they appear composed in imagery like the cry of life from a disengaged womb, leaving me high, fulfilled and drained. I have battled in my earlier works to break free of lines and forms. The first line I drew on canvas stared at me like a shackle beginning to curl and swallow. I have fought that line and scaled limitations till interaction, conversation or creativity all blur into a language of liberated being and emoting.

In recent works, the impressions are emerging without boundaries till what is represented is an essence without a necessary dictum. In this series, I present a mixture of angst and celebration.

Nandita Chaudhuri - Profile

Nandita Chaudhuri, a London based Bengali artist, has been sculpting metal murals and painting oils in mixed media for over 20 years. Her works grace private collections across the globe, as well as the international offices of companies such as American Express, Citigroup and Mastercard, to name a few.

Nandita honed her skills in abstract art at the Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London. Further experimentations continued in scope and medium under the tutelage of Christian Missom, an art restorer of Old Masters Paintings in London. Her education is further continued at the Slade School of Art, London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her works have emerged with strong content and composition. A deep thinker and poet, Nandita’s works reflect poignancy throughout her series on display.

With a postgraduate degree in Marketing Management from Westminster Business School, London, Nandita has had a meteoric career as a senior professional manager. She has worked in Senior Management roles in India, Central Europe and the UK in multinational advertising companies and a leading global bank. However, over the years her inner voice has beckoned her back to her studio. For Nandita, it has been a culmination of passion and liberation coming home. Her first exhibition in London is aptly titled A Journey and Back.

A multifaceted personality, she has worn many hats as artist, art critique and theatre personality and published over a 100 articles in various newspapers and magazines in India and overseas. She has been the recipient of the Nehru award and has been living in London for the past 10 years with her family.

 

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