Gallery Silver Scpaes
Life of a Goat
Life of a Goat
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 36 x 30 inches (91.44 × 76.2 cm)
Year: 2025
This richly textured painting offers a heartfelt portrayal of rural life, where landscape, architecture, and daily existence converge in a harmonious, contemplative composition. Set within a rustic village setting, the scene is rendered with expressive brushwork and a warm, earthy palette that immediately evokes a sense of familiarity and belonging. The artist captures more than just a visual environment—this work is a quiet celebration of community, labor, and tradition.
The village is composed of clustered homes with varied rooflines, their forms simplified but full of character. These structures create a rhythmic architectural pattern, one that mirrors the flow of everyday life in rural settings. Terraced greenery rises in the background, suggesting both the topography of the land and the agricultural practices that shape it. These layered fields, subtly indicated through texture and form, reinforce the intimate connection between the people and the land they cultivate.
A goat, prominently placed in the foreground, anchors the composition with pastoral charm. Its presence adds life to the setting, reinforcing the painting’s grounding in agrarian reality. This animal, often a symbol of sustenance and resilience, serves as a gentle reminder of the interconnectedness between human life and nature in village ecosystems. The artist’s use of textured brushwork gives the surface a tactile richness, imbuing the canvas with a sense of material depth and lived-in warmth. Each stroke seems to hold the weight of memory and continuity, reflecting the physical and emotional layers of rural life. This technique enhances the authenticity of the work, allowing the viewer to not just see but feel the environment portrayed.
Folk-art sensibilities guide the stylistic choices throughout the piece, from the stylized forms to the subtly narrative composition. Yet, the simplicity of representation is never reductive. Rather, it elevates the ordinary, offering a poetic reflection on the value of daily routines and communal spaces. The muted tones of ochre, sienna, and clay create a palette rooted in the land itself, further grounding the work in its cultural and environmental context. Resonates as both an aesthetic and ethnographic document. It is a timeless visual ode to the quiet dignity of rural life, offering not spectacle, but soul. Through form, texture, and warmth, the artist captures the enduring beauty embedded in the lived experience of place.
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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.