About Prafullas canvases:

From the core of the luminous void timeless energy expands. It touches the shores of reality and pull~ back into subliminal

dimensions of the mind. As it shifts and blurs the borders between the known and unknown it ignites the creative moment.

From it an epiphany of colour and light, line and volume emerges. The rhythm of this lila permeates Prafulla's present body

of work.

Meditative, still, these oil canvases bear the imprint of another reality. In them alternating expanses of the light suffused void

punctuate vegetative forms that leave traceries of forest and open earth. There is an element of surprise in these

compositional counterpoints. Light permeates the ground permitting a building of volumes that carry a sensual. Weightless

buoyancy.

As the palette knife excavates the pigment, the roller pulls it in multi-layered, expanding bands. The pigment curls and lifts

on the canvas as a notation of marks builds surface tension. . Subtle, tonal values grow out of one another. Sap green,

vandyke brown, ochre, lemon yellow, cobalt blue, raw sienna, coppery orange and scarlet are subdued and set awash with

luminosity. The work bears the imprint of spontaneity and the swift delineation of Chinese brushwork.

It is full of a quirky minimalism and a charged immediacy. Prafulla enjoys walking the edge of the unknown and invites the

viewer to opt out of the material dimension and enter the organic force-field of the void. Her mindscapes capture her

passion for vocal music. They seem to resonate with the swelling notes of her ragas as they merge into nada, the expansive

primordial sound.

Her large ochre and smaller grey-white and black canvases indicate a shift into a new trajectory of stylistic development.

The dark, fanned out markings of black pigment in the smaller work seem like winged creatures, while the white and grey

striations are less luminous but organically active. This work could perhaps be a point of breaking new ground in an

evolving painterly vocabulary.

In her canvases Prafulla images the complex interplay between life and nature. They are awash with emotive insights. As she

negotiates between several levels of expressivity, she seems to invite the viewers to test the waters of infinity.

In her leafy, sun-dappled studio in Lonavala Prafulla works facing the brow of the hills. Between the trees that scatter

against one another the sky tilts upwards. The elements interplay across the studio's tall glass-panelled wall and the artist

does what she loves best. She pulls the roller and hums Todi to herself, as she communicates with nature.

Sumitra Kumar Srinivasan Lonavala Monsoon 2001