Ratheesh T

The artist says his process is a private one, where he locks himself in his studio while he works. And it could be for anywhere between a few weeks to nearly six months to finish each work. Of late he has been far too disturbed by the deluge in Kerala. We ask him if that shall find an expression on his canvas, and he says he's too shaken to process it.

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Characterised by sensuous colours, his paintings are laced with magic realism as he tries to explore connections between the rural and urban, natural and man-made, family bonds and politics too. "I am part of the culture [of my state], so those visuals appear spontaneously. The cultural environment seeps into my work. The beauty of art is that each one comes to it with their own problems and experiences and therefore it is open-ended," Ratheesh says. Most of his paintings are on large canvases, we observe. "The colours support the visual, and the scale supports the vision," he says.

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