Portfolio | Preetha Kannan

Exploring the interplay of forms, shapes, lines, textures, colors, tonal values, and light to create a visual language that conveys my emotional and personal expressions through numerous grids made up of varying although interconnected, distinct paintings.

S

(2021)

The vocabulary of forms, shapes, lines, texture, colours, tonal values, and light creates in my works a visual power, which in its manipulation manifestly translates to become a vehicle for emotional and personal expressions.

I

(2017)

I was hiking in the Himalayas with a friend and was lucky to witness a rare sighting: a beautiful mountain goat called the tahr. This animal was fast disappearing and I felt inspired to capture the moment for eternity.

I

(2015)

I can say I almost got an epiphany for this show
when I happened to pass by Alang, the gigantic ship-breaking yard in Gujarat.
As if the ocean had been taken over by machinery...

S

(2021-2023)

To create intricacies of hues to form a harmonious whole is absolutely blissful and feels like a dream. There is a thin line between spontaneity and dexterity and that is what I experience - the feeling of total control over the movement on the canvas.

M

(2019-2020)

I feel as if am quietly and subconsciously listening to mysterious whispers of the color memory of decades, while I paint this series. This series aims to evoke transient patterns of color in every sense, scintillatingly so.

G

R

(2015-16)

Depicting the day the destruction of the habitat will go so far that life will have to adapt and evolve to survive in a new environment. GAIA RELOADED is my vision of a surreal future of the oceans. Perhaps, a surreal speculation.

S

M

(2012)

The “Mangrove Series” extends the exploration of Gaia's themes, focusing on the intricate balance of our planet through the lens of these vital, yet endangered ecosystems. Inspired by the mangroves facing erasure near my beach home in Versova, Andheri

G

(2010)

With climate change caused by unchecked human industrial activity, will we go on?

Artist | Painter | Mixed-Media

S

(2021-2023)

Exploring the interplay of forms, shapes, lines, textures, colors, tonal values, and light to create a visual language that conveys my emotional and personal expressions through numerous grids made up of varying although interconnected, distinct paintings.

S

(2021)

The vocabulary of forms, shapes, lines, texture, colours, tonal values, and light creates in my works a visual power, which in its manipulation manifestly translates to become a vehicle for emotional and personal expressions.

I

(2017)

I was hiking in the Himalayas with a friend and was lucky to witness a rare sighting: a beautiful mountain goat called the tahr. This animal was fast disappearing and I felt inspired to capture the moment for eternity.

I

(2015)

I can say I almost got an epiphany for this show
when I happened to pass by Alang, the gigantic ship-breaking yard in Gujarat.
As if the ocean had been taken over by machinery...

S

(2021-2023)

To create intricacies of hues to form a harmonious whole is absolutely blissful and feels like a dream. There is a thin line between spontaneity and dexterity and that is what I experience - the feeling of total control over the movement on the canvas.

M

(2019-2020)

I feel as if am quietly and subconsciously listening to mysterious whispers of the color memory of decades, while I paint this series. This series aims to evoke transient patterns of color in every sense, scintillatingly so.

G

R

(2015-16)

Depicting the day the destruction of the habitat will go so far that life will have to adapt and evolve to survive in a new environment. GAIA RELOADED is my vision of a surreal future of the oceans. Perhaps, a surreal speculation.

S

M

(2012)

The “Mangrove Series” extends the exploration of Gaia's themes, focusing on the intricate balance of our planet through the lens of these vital, yet endangered ecosystems. Inspired by the mangroves facing erasure near my beach home in Versova, Andheri

G

(2010)

With climate change caused by unchecked human industrial activity, will we go on?

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