AHAM Solo Painting Exhibition 2016

<p>Sunayana was born and brought up in central Delhi, and hails from a family of engineers, doctors and professionals. She is the youngest of three children and she was always encouraged to express herself in the arts. As a girl she spent many evenings after school, Modern School, Barakhamba Road, to study Hindustani Classical music and singing, easel painting, life studies in graphite and charcoal. She went on to study art at the Triveni Kala Sangam, Sri Ram centre and has spent many evenings at the Kamani Auditorium and the Lalit Kala Akademi, absorbing the arts. She graduated in English Honours from Indraprastha College . She continued to write poetry but began painting passionately and with focus by 2005. Sunayana had her first exhibition at the Ashoka Hotel Art Lounge where she displayed 25 works and has grown from strength to strength since then. She has displayed her works at Visual art gallery, Habitat centre, Triveni kala Sangam, Lalit kala Akedemi, many five star hotels, her paintings are in many private collections in London, Muscat, Dubai, Virginia USA, New Zealand and Australia. The artist is also associated and works along with many leading interior designers to create works of art enhancing various homes and offices in Delhi and NCR.</p><p><em>'For me drawing the female form comes naturally it is a way for me to express my thoughts ..or reflect on them. For me the female form is not glorified or portrayed to please any male voyeristic attitude or as the media portrays it but it is of a real woman whose body tells of her journey from puberty. To motherhood to her breast feeding days to finally menopause even though she camouflages herself a woman looks at her own self with disgust at the changes she undergoes and also uses it as a medium to seduce in my work you will always see alone woman standing. The woman also balances the world she creates as in ..her lover