UNI EXCLUSIVEMumbai, Aug. 8 -- For Delhi-based artist Sadhna Gupta, the leap from psychology to painting was never really a leap at all, it was a continuation. Years spent listening to what patients left unsaid gave way to a practice built on translating the same silences into colour, line and form. The result is a body of work that resists easy reading, insisting instead that meaning be found rather than given.
In this exclusive conversation with Neha Purav, the self-taught artist behind Sadhu Tree speaks about excavating hidden narratives, why chaos on the canvas is really an invitation, and how paintings of masked men, floating figures and forests-within-the-mind are less about what is seen and more about what is felt.
Gupta describes ...