Gallery Silver Scpaes
The Clearing
The Clearing
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30 x 42 inches (76.2 × 106.68 cm)
Year: 2025
In In The Clearing, Anurag Anand presents a poignant and visually arresting scene, a solitary, faceless woman standing amidst a fragmented urban backdrop. The composition is a dense patchwork of tilted homes and fractured, stained-glass skies. While the architecture looms expressively, bordering on the surreal, the woman's stillness creates a powerful contrast. Her facelessness evokes a sense of anonymity and vulnerability, speaking to the emotional alienation often experienced in chaotic, modern environments. This duality, between movement and stillness, turmoil and introspection, is central to Anurag Anand’s artistic process. Many of his works begin in an expressive, almost chaotic emotional register and gradually resolve into visual calm. That trajectory, from unrest to inner balance, is not only visible on the canvas but also felt by the viewer as a deeply personal emotional cadence. In The Clearing captures this transformation eloquently, offering a moment of quiet reflection amidst visual disorder.
Anurag’s signature lies in the way he weaves together the natural and manmade, often blurring the boundary between memory and observation. His scenes, while grounded in realism, carry a dreamlike quality, recalling rural serenity, childhood symbols, and emotional landscapes. His colour palette is vivid yet rooted in earth tones, reds of parched soil, deep monsoon blues, and the soft golds of late-summer evenings, creating an atmosphere that is both evocative and immersive. Symbolism is subtly embedded throughout his compositions. In other works, a tortoise, a hare, or a cat might appear, quiet references to memory, folklore, or inner states, never overt but always resonant. In In The Clearing, it is the absence of such a clear symbol that becomes meaningful, as the woman herself becomes a vessel for collective emotion and introspection. In The Clearing is less a statement and more an invitation, to pause, to feel, to reflect. In a world increasingly marked by noise and fragmentation, Anurag’s work offers sanctuary. His paintings are timeless not because they ignore the present, but because they gently reflect our shared need for connection, clarity, and quiet.
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Art has always, naturally, reflected the development and exploration of different thoughts and perceptions, and our current postmodern era is no different. It is interesting to see how art has evolved visually, yet the traditional methods of composing art remain a valid means of expression.
All it takes for an artist to rise above normalcy, is inspiration, which fuels his passion to paint beautiful creations throughout his life.
The valuable expression of art is always there with us, but now this expression is yet to take an interesting diversion with our art gallery, Gallery Silver Scapes, located in Hauz Khas Enclave. Art is no longer considered just decorative but has evolved and come forth as a major form of investment yielding high rates of returns for its buyers, making it an expression commonly used.
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.