About The Artist
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Cecil Beaton
I am Aakash Anand, India based artist.
Self-taught is a word you could question. "I love to create" is an honest sentence.
The Burnt Art series carries with it a crude form of an almost primitive style, an intensity restricted to simple bold patterns which adds depth, strength and definition to an otherwise burnt wilderness.
(Burnt Art, The Phoenix Before The Ashes series)
The technique was experimental and actually by accident.
In the moment of putting out a paper fire, I saw a rusty landscape develop among the ashes. Looking closer there were mountains and smoke, I saw the possibility of a new canvas.
The finished piece is made from a composite of layers, i.e. burnt handmade paper (400gsm) and burnt fabric (refined silk jute). The color palette varies to shades that are developed by partial combustion of both the paper and the fabric.
Maybe its the look on their faces, amazement in the beauty that draws them, changes the way they see the world forever, extends to them the hand of endless possibilities.
Like I told my friend once,
"A single blank sheet of paper holds the most beautiful illustration ever made, infact every one of those blank pages does. The question is, do you see it?"
Think of it this way, I offer you a moment to get lost from your automated life, the ticket to an altered reality with no boundaries and no limits, where anything is possible.
Enjoy.
SHOWS
Burnt Art (22-26th March 2007) India Habitat Centre
AWARDS
National award for Design of 14th Nov 2002 Commemorative Stamp on "Children's Day"
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Cecil Beaton
I am Aakash Anand, India based artist.
Self-taught is a word you could question. "I love to create" is an honest sentence.
The Burnt Art series carries with it a crude form of an almost primitive style, an intensity restricted to simple bold patterns which adds depth, strength and definition to an otherwise burnt wilderness.
(Burnt Art, The Phoenix Before The Ashes series)
The technique was experimental and actually by accident.
In the moment of putting out a paper fire, I saw a rusty landscape develop among the ashes. Looking closer there were mountains and smoke, I saw the possibility of a new canvas.
The finished piece is made from a composite of layers, i.e. burnt handmade paper (400gsm) and burnt fabric (refined silk jute). The color palette varies to shades that are developed by partial combustion of both the paper and the fabric.
Maybe its the look on their faces, amazement in the beauty that draws them, changes the way they see the world forever, extends to them the hand of endless possibilities.
Like I told my friend once,
"A single blank sheet of paper holds the most beautiful illustration ever made, infact every one of those blank pages does. The question is, do you see it?"
Think of it this way, I offer you a moment to get lost from your automated life, the ticket to an altered reality with no boundaries and no limits, where anything is possible.
Enjoy.
SHOWS
Burnt Art (22-26th March 2007) India Habitat Centre
AWARDS
National award for Design of 14th Nov 2002 Commemorative Stamp on "Children's Day"
Aakash Anand 2007-2008
