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Kerala Calling
Kerala Calling
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 33 × 32 inches (83.82 × 81.28 cm)
Year: 2025
Radiating charm and nostalgia, Kerala Calling captures the lyrical beauty of a riverside village with a distinctively folk-art sensibility. The composition presents a lovingly stylized landscape, a serene tableau where nature, architecture, and human presence converge in harmonious balance. With its muted palette and textured application, the painting invites viewers into an idyllic realm shaped by memory, rhythm, and rustic tranquility.
At the heart of the scene is a cascading hillside dotted with modest, triangular-roofed houses in soft beige tones. Their subtle tilts and irregular clustering suggest a lived-in quality structures shaped not only by time but by nature’s gentle pressures. The gentle incline leads the eye down to a rich, blue body of water, perhaps a river or lake, which anchors the lower half of the composition in calm stillness. On this shimmering surface, a few small boats drift quietly, their inclusion hinting at the rhythms of daily village life. A striking detail is the pinkish-red train or railcar that traverses a graceful arched bridge, acting as both a visual focal point and a symbol of movement within an otherwise meditative scene. The bridge delicately rendered functions as a bridge in the metaphorical sense as well, connecting not only the landscape’s physical halves but also themes of tradition and transition, past and present.
Vegetation flourishes throughout the image, enhancing the sense of abundance. Trees, painted in dusky greens, violets, and soft purples, punctuate the hillside and shoreline, creating a gentle contrast against the earthen tones of the village. The varied coloration evokes Kerala’s famed biodiversity while adding a poetic atmosphere that lifts the landscape beyond mere representation. Executed in a style reminiscent of naïve or folk painting, the composition emphasizes emotional resonance over linear perspective. The simplified forms and painterly texture lend the work a hand-crafted intimacy, capturing not just the physical contours of a place, but its spirit rooted in quietude, tradition, and communal life.
Kerala Calling is both an homage to the vernacular architecture and natural beauty of India’s southern landscapes, and a visual reverie one that draws viewers into a timeless, slow-moving world where the pulse of life is felt in boats gliding on water, trees swaying in breeze, and the gentle hum of a distant train.
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Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.