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Sarang Bhand
INDIA
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“Born into a family of artists in 1982, I learned about drawing and painting at an early age.”
Sarang heads a clean-tech company engaged in providing sustainable recycling solutions, enabling methane capture and a circular economy. A marketing graduate and a certified project manager. He is passionate about photography, painting, and writing. Based in Mumbai, India, when not troubleshooting projects, he likes to spend weekends either creating images, playing with colors, or attempting writing.
Paper boat | Acrylic
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24 X 24
The painting takes us to our childhood days when we celebrated the tiniest of things. Simplicity and joy were in abundance. Almost everyone at some point in their childhood has made a paper boat and seeing it float the drain and chasing it during the rainy season was sheer joy. The painting is from a current series that the artist is working on.
Though he has no formal degree in arts, he acquired the skills from his grandfather, who was an artist and an art teacher in Madhya Pradesh, Central India. Sarang studied the basics of drawing and painting from his grandfather during his childhood days. But pursued a different profession. He resumed his passion for painting in 2016 in remembrance of his late grandfather.
Paper Plane | Acrylic
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24 X 24
The painting evokes childhood memories and takes us back to our school days when almost everyone at some point has made a paper plane and made it fly in the classroom either in a free period or behind teacher's back. The painting is from a current series that the artist is working on.
Sarang is passionate about painting abstracts, as it empowers him to bring order amidst the chaos. Finding the fine balance between the colors and composition is his meditation. While playing with colors is an instinctive process for him, his artworks are based on a deliberate intent.
“My workflow for paintings is usually based on a narrative or a theme that integrates the individual artworks in a particular series.”
His artworks are inspired by nature and are centered around natural phenomena or/and interactions with nature or/and simple mundane things that evoke creativity. His abstract artworks have both elements of geometric and organic shapes with a focus on a balanced composition and balance of colors. Besides abstracts, Sarang also likes to do expressionistic figurative paintings and portraits.
Whirlpool | Acrylic
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24 X 24
Artist has captured bold swirling movements of the Whirlpool with his imagination on the canvas.
Spring comes for a brief moment when everything becomes bright and green and different colors blossom out of nowhere.
Spring | Acrylic
NA
24 X 24
His preferred choice of medium is acrylics on stretched canvas and he loves the impasto technique, using palette knives and hog bristle brushes with thick layers of paint to give texture to his works. When painting an abstract he prefers working in a square format. His preferred choice of brands for acrylic colors are Liquitex, Winsor, and Newton. His preferred choice for pastels is Sennelier.
“While I primarily work with acrylic colors, I love to experiment with different mediums including watercolors, soft pastels, and oils using different techniques.”
“As it is a part-time endeavor for me, I create only 15-20 paintings in a series of 5. i.e. 3 or 4 theme-based series in a year. I am passionate and committed to my art and have a professional approach when it comes to presenting and exhibiting my artwork.”
He has been studying portraiture and figurative works in his spare time. He also sometimes likes to do still-life paintings. He carries his watercolor sketchbook whenever he travels for vacations and loves to do watercolor sketches of those places. He is a keen student of art and loves to experiment with his creativity using different mediums and varied techniques.
Horizon | Acrylic
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24 X 24
Horizon is an intersection where Earth meets the sky and the sun rises and sets. The artist has tried to capture the sunset over the horizon in this painting.
Sarang finds the works of Master Artists Van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Edgar Degas to be most riveting. He wishes to develop a comprehensive and eclectic portfolio of his works and wishes to set up his independent studio in the near future. His portfolio and past artworks and photographs can be accessed at https://www.ih-klek-tik.com.
Old man at Sea | Pastel
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12 X 9
The artist has drawn inspiration from Hemingway's 'Old Man at the Sea' in this portrait attempt.
Sarang is also a member of The Royal Photographic Society, UK, and earned a Licentiateship (LRPS) distinction in 2016. He has earned various accolades (honorable mentions) and awards for photography in various international competitions in the past. He has exhibited his photographs internationally and his photographs have sold internationally.
A figurative abstract representing forbearance of nature.
Forbearance | Pastel
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12 X 9
“I am currently working on a five-painting ‘Origami’ themed series centered around childhood memories to be followed by a ‘NOTAN’ series.”
Dance of the butterflies | Pastel
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12 X 9
An expressionistic abstract representing flying butterflies.
He is also a member of The Poetry Society UK and likes to write poetry and has a fascination for Japanese poetry forms of Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka. He has a self-published poetry chapbook to his credit.
A still life of pickle jar and lemons. Reminding me of a typical summer in India.
Pickle jar and lemons | Oil
NA
12 X 9
Sarang is planning a Hagia project: combining abstract painting accompanied with a haiku poem and shall be planning an exhibition around the theme next year in 2024. Sarang is participating in an upcoming curated group exhibition “Dhwanil” at Lalit Kala Academy in Shimla, India from 8th -12 June 2023, where three of his abstract paintings will be on display along with other curated works of participants.
Stride |Ink
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12 X 9
A NOTAN sketch of a rider riding a horse. The artist loves to do notan studies.
“I like to blend the objective with the subjective, creating a juxtaposition in my abstract artworks.”
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