Goa, Sept. 6 -- Vivek Menezes

Seeking to follow in the footsteps of many significant artists, writers, musicians from around the world who have retreated to Goa at crucial periods in their creative lives, the brilliant young Goan-British-Israeli artist Solomon Souza has brought his wife and three tiny tots out of fraught Jerusalem into the lush late-monsoon landscapes of India's smallest state. Viewing along on social media, it is like a switch flipped in the stream of artworks this prodigious talent keeps on drawing and painting and sharing. His new countryside images are seriously compelling, and over the phone yesterday, the 32-year-old told me that "my mind is more at ease here. I am able to allow myself to relax, and find that more ...