As an artist, I want my landscapes to convey reminiscences of my feelings and senses - touch, smells and sounds, collected from the places where I have lived. After exploring different subjects like streets, figures, I found a calling for nature. Consequently, large volume of my work covers widespread, vast landscapes with land, water bodies and skies. My leitmotif – “‘The Tree” has remained constant as part of my oeuvre over the years in my career as a painter, this is because of my deep and innate bond with trees that I cherish, which grew along with me in a rural Indian hamlet. In India, trees enjoy a seminal place in the mystical and spiritual realm, going beyond the functional domain of just giving fruits and shade. They stand tall like sentinels, saving us even when our greed destroys them