Gallery Silver Scpaes
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 63 × 41 inches (160.02 × 104.14 cm)
Year: 2025
This vibrant and stylized cityscape blends childlike wonder with emotional depth, offering a poetic meditation on urban life, memory, and imagination. Rendered in an expressive, almost naïve visual language, the composition features a compact arrangement of warm-toned buildings with sharply defined rooftops, clustered together in a seemingly haphazard yet deliberate manner. Their irregular alignment evokes the organic sprawl of old towns, where architecture grows intuitively rather than by plan. Dominating the middle ground is a tall palm tree, a recurring symbol in many urban and semi-urban landscapes. Its bold verticality cuts through the horizontal layering of rooftops, adding compositional balance while suggesting resilience and life amid the built environment. The palm becomes both a visual anchor and a symbolic bridge between nature and human habitation.
One of the most poignant elements in the painting is a small red kite floating in the sky, its thin string tethered to the unseen hands of the city below. This seemingly playful detail carries emotional weight, subtly conjuring themes of freedom, nostalgia, and connection. The kite becomes a metaphor, of childhood, longing, or the spirit of the city reaching beyond itself. The artist’s palette is warm and inviting, dominated by yellows, oranges, earthy browns, and punctuated with cooler notes of blue and green. This contrast energizes the composition, creating both harmony and visual rhythm. The expressive brushwork, richly textured and varied in direction, imbues the surface with vitality. Each stroke contributes to the scene’s dynamic atmosphere, suggesting shifting light, movement, and the layered fabric of urban life.
The painting stands out for its successful fusion of abstraction, symbolism, and narrative. It resists photorealistic depiction, choosing instead to capture the feeling of the city, its warmth, its chaos, and its charm. The naïve aesthetic enhances its emotional accessibility, inviting viewers of all backgrounds to find their own story within the rooftops, trees, and open skies. This artwork is a celebration of city life, not in its grandeur, but in its textures, memories, and quiet poetry. It speaks to the human experience within urban spaces, our rootedness, our dreams, and the fragile strings that bind us to place and each other.
Why Choose Us
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.