Where colours flow easily

“Different strokes of nature beguiles and inspires me. I like observing minutely the different peculiarities of nature like a tiny caterpillar in all it's colourful splendour, the sun's radiance on my face and how nature glows luminously before the sun sets. These various nuances excites me, and prompts me to pick up the brush,” reveals Neha Asher, whose 25 paintings are presently being exhibited at Malaka Spice, Lane 5, Koregaon Park, from 11 am to 11.30 pm till July 15.
A teacher by profession, Asher's favourite themes are nature and women. Her collection of paintings in oil, watercolour and dry pastels are drawn from simple themes and shades of nature and women in different avatars. “I focused on small details capturing women in their everyday life like cooking, doing household chores and so on. These details usually go unnoticed,” she says.
In most of her paintings, she uses different colours and textures to give expression to her moods and feelings. “I don't follow a set style, texture and colours. I usually mix and match shades, which is visually and texturally appealing to the eye. Mostly, it depends on the particular subject and the ambience. For instance, if I am painting a tribal scene, I use contrasting earthen shades,” Asher shares. The amazingly wide spectrum of colours in her works catches your eye. Among the most arresting images are the paintings on women depicting her various moods and the paintings of nature in subtle hues.