Art for me has been a means find answers to my restless self.

Till my early thirties I was just drifting from one role to another- daughter, student, wife, daughter-in-law, mother to two beautiful girls. Only after these roles were realized did I grow conscious of my restlessness. I stared by trying to paint these feelings, feelings of being lost, listlessness, of wanting something more.

My early works were figurative, faces especially eyes became a very important part of my compositions. I loved working with charcoal, pastels and ink.

During this period, as a challenge I started doing compositions on seeds, looking at them as life pods, romanticizing the universal question of continuity of life and fertility. It was whilst doodling a composition of lines during this period did the Banyan become a conscious thought to me and so began my Banyan series, in 2014.

The Banyan became my way of trying to know myself. To give form to my abstract feelings. Metaphorically the Banyan signified to me a dance of life and time.