Auto, 2010
pencil and pigment on paper
25 x 30 cm
Stepping Out, 2010
pencil and pigment on paper
25 x 30 cm
Loaded, 2011
pencil on paper
35 x 25 cm
Woman Stacking Mosambi, 2010
charcoal on paper
60 x 85 cm
Mysore Arms, 2010
charcoal and pigment on paper
110 x 100 cm
The Look (with cucumber and chili), 2011
charcoal and pencil on paper
60 x 85 cm
Flower Man... with ear piece, 2011
charcoal and pencil on paper
60 x 85 cm
Itchy Head, 2011
charcoal and collage on handmade paper
85 x 60 cm
Monkey Mind, 2011
charcoal, pencil and kum kum on homemade paper
85 x 60 cm
Self-Portrait Balancing Chickoo and Egg, 2011
charcoal and mixed media on paper
85 x 60 cm
The Evolution of Consciousness. 2012
charcoal on board
45 x 30 cm
Widow on a Ledge, 2011
charcoal and pencil on handmade paper
60 x 85 cm
Boy with Chicken, 2010
Mixed media with kum kum powder on paper
85 x 60 cm
Cell, 2010
charcoal and pencil on handmade paper
60 x 85 cm
Rooster Call, 2010
charcoal and pencil on handmade paper
60 x 85 cm
Locked in Thought, 2011
charcoal on gold paper
60 x 85 cm
Generation Gap (Mysore), 2015
Charcoal on paper
20 x 24 in
Mysore Tooth, 2010
charcoal, pencil and pigment on paper
60 x 85 cm
Surya-namaskara (sun salutation), 2011
charcoal and pencil on handmade paper
60 x 85 cm
Pineapple Man with Chili, 2011
Mixed media on handmade paper
60 x 85 cm
Baby Ganesh (playing in the rubbish), 2011
charcoal on paper
55 x 70 cm
Road Trip, 2011
pencil on paper
35 x 25 cm
Auto Stand, 2010
pencil and pigment on paper
25 x 30 cm
Lazy Man, 2012
pencil and charcoal on paper
35 x 25 cm
Yoga nidrasana (yogic sleep), 2012
charcoal on paper
35 x 25 cm
Mysore Madness, 2011
charcoal on paper
85 x 60 cm
Mysore Personification (1-5), 2011
Charcoal, pencil, kum kum on handmade paper
85 x 300 cm
Artwork for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga (2015).
Oil on paper on panel
20 × 16 in
Artwork for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga (2015).
Oil and mixed media on paper on panel
18 × 12 in
Artwork for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga (2015).
Pigment on paper
8 × 8 in
Artwork for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga (2015).
Oil and mixed media on paper on panel
14 × 8 in
Artwork for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga (2015).
Pigment on paper
8 × 8 in
Artwork for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga (2015).
Oil and mixed media on paper on panel
14 × 8 in
Artwork for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga (2015).
Pigment on paper
8 × 8 in
Selections from India
These works grew out of repeated periods living, working and studying yoga in India. Encounters with people and places unfolded alongside an immersion in yoga philosophy, the inquiries of J. Krishnamurti and the writings of John Berger and James Hillman.
Drawing became a place to explore questions these encounters opened up: how thought shapes what we see, how imagination transforms an observation, and how an image can lead beyond what we think we know. Figures, gestures and everyday incidents mingle with humor and mythic associations, moving between close observation and the unexpected turns of the image itself. Through drawing, seeing became a form of questioning, allowing the images to complicate whatever answers I thought I had.
The selection concludes with artwork created for Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga, a Sanskrit textbook first published by North Point Press in 2015, extending these interests into a dialogue between painting and language.