Gallery Silver Scpaes
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Artist: Anurag Anand
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Size: 30 x 30 inches (76.2 × 76.2 cm)
Year: 2025
Radiating warmth, cultural richness, and poetic intimacy, this sunset village scene is a luminous celebration of rural life rendered through a vibrant folk-art lens. The composition captures a moment suspended in time, where tradition, nature, and human presence converge in serene harmony. Dominated by bold, stylized forms and expressive colors, the work invites viewers into a space both personal and universal, grounded in the quiet rhythms of village life. Painting, a winding path leads the eye through a cluster of rustic homes, their simplified shapes conveying familiarity and rootedness. Framing this gentle passage is a bold, silhouetted tree, its organic form rising like a protective canopy, guiding the viewer’s gaze and echoing the enduring presence of nature in rural life. The tree's dark shape contrasts beautifully against the golden-orange glow of the sky, enhancing the painting's emotional atmosphere and its sense of closure at day's end.
A woman in a maroon saree stands as the emotional anchor of the scene. Her calm, poised stance evokes dignity, resilience, and introspection. Whether she is returning home or quietly observing her surroundings, she becomes a symbolic figure of femininity and tradition, central to the social and spiritual life of the village. Her presence brings humanity and emotional depth to the composition, grounding it in lived experience. To her side, a peacock stands in quiet grace, its elegant form rendered with restraint yet unmistakable in symbolism. In Indian art and culture, the peacock is often associated with beauty, spirituality, and renewal. Here, it adds an element of mythic charm, enriching the narrative with a sense of reverence for nature and the cultural symbolism that permeates daily life.
The vivid hues of orange, gold, and maroon dominate the palette, creating a warm, enveloping visual field that evokes the serenity and richness of twilight. These colors, applied in flat yet expressive swathes, heighten the work’s folk-art aesthetic and emotional immediacy. The stylized approach, far from simplistic, infuses the painting with symbolic clarity and narrative resonance. This artwork serves as a vibrant homage to rural heritage. It captures not only the visual beauty of village life but also its emotional and cultural essence, celebrating tradition, femininity, and the quiet poetry of the everyday with striking elegance and sincerity.
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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.