About
Artist's Statement
Expression and inspiration which leads me through my practice. Vision has tremendous impact on how we perceive events, things and surroundings. Like a child i love to play with colors and the process being of focus and attention is free from the driving force of doing it right.I have been painting effortlessly for unlimited hours giving an edge over composition in every painting. I dont see color as they are until i put my fingers and feel the smoothness, texture and fluidity. Though my process is messy and engaged but compositions are deliberate and playful; work shifts suddenly from somber to slapstick. i experience the painting's transcendent power. And each work for me is an end to itself but a beginning for the next one. I am excited for the way my work has evolved.
Abhijit Gondkar, Art Writer
Sharmila makes paintings to be reckoned with. Her largely abstract canvases and wild seaside landscapes can be broody, even confrontational, in earthy dark tones. But many of these paintings sparkle with brilliant blues, and cheery greens, reds, and yellows. Darker colours crop up and provide terrific contrast. Sharmila completed her part-time course in painting from Sir J J School of Art and since then she has continually challenged herself, grappling with form in oils water-colours and collages; with space and surface in abstract painting and art history. One thing has remained constant her delight in the elemental quality of paint. She’s like a kid with finger paints, or making mud pies. She fills her canvases with smears, dollops, and grit. Her passion can’t be missed.