Safari India Magazine

ART

It’s About Cultural Affinity…

Apart from what we learn in our school and college, something that makes us the person we are is our culture, the place we are born and brought up in and the traditions and rituals that we follow willingly. PRERNA KAPOOR, a young female artist has such strong cultural background and she entails that articulately in her paintings, recently at India Habitat centre, New Delhi, in a group exhibition called USHUDDHA Eternal Bliss.

Prerna was born in India and raised in Japan, completed her fine Arts Diploma from Delhi College of Art in 2009 and is currently polishing her skills and pursuing fine Arts Advance Diploma. She studied in Scotland and is strongly inspired by the European art. She was a language translator in Japan and her multilingual Expertise and cultural background inspired her to paint her outlook & experience onto a canvas. She expresses her art insight through the Indian dance forms and Japanese characters (kanji) taking shape of the form. Kanji characters overlapping the Indian dance form represent the mixture of two different cultures blending in together.

This inspiration arose as a result of her move to India after observing numerous different cultures within the country. She channeled her expression of love towards India and Japan through her paintings with the strong focus on optimism, hope and other positive perspectives of life. She wants to continue her journey into the magnificent multi-faceted world of indo-Japanese inspirations & paint with colours of personal experiences.

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Prerna Kapoor

I consider myself a global citizen. At the age of 15, I received an art scholarship to study Fine Arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, which introducted me to my passion and calling. From my wonderful teacher Ms. Francesca Shaw, I firmed in my resolve to learn and to further expolore my love for colors. Ms. Shaw’s belief and encouragement turned into my motivation. From being a Japanese interpreter and translator to a devoted art painter, the journey has had its moments of vacillation as well. While completing my advanced degree, I was able to rediscover my Indian roots and even had an opportunity to showcase my work in some of the leading art galleries of New Delhi. It enriched my color palette and added to my repertoire.
Experiencing such diverse cultures has had a unique influence on the nuances of my thought process, which have found their way onto my canvasses through my brushes and colors. I have been exteremely blessed to amalgamate these many influences in my work. From the Japanese Sumi art, where each stroke is expressive and speaks to its distinctly meditative culture, to the Indian influence which brings a riot of colors and textures in a traditional way-plus nuances of Scotland and Singapore, where I lived for a time-my work and I have been enriched with an ever-evolving vocabulary.
I now live in Parker and fall in love every day with the refreshing scenic beauty and gorgeous skies which often find their way onto my canvasses.
Nature in all its splendor and glory is an immense inspiration for my landscapes. My abstract paintings are an endeavor to explore the hitherto, unknown realms of my own complex consciousness. I’m happy for opportunities to exhibit my work in various shows, and to continue my path along this colorful, inward journey that finds outward expression and audience.