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Sudha is known for her figurative and abstract paintings and her expressive portraits of women. According to Keshav Malik “her art has freshness and appeal. The general understatedness is sensitizing and the occasional architectural forms bracing and crisp”.
She is deeply influenced by the impressionists but returns frequently to the Indian idiom. To quote: G.R. Santosh – “Indian tradition is based on the universal concept of the ultimate reality manifesting itself in a myriad shapes and forms in time and space”.
In her latest artworks, the paintings celebrate these myriad forms and the gift of life.
According to her, painting reaches deep into the psyche - even subliminal thoughts one may not be aware of find ready expression with a brush. “When I start painting, I do not have anything in mind. The painting takes shape as I draw,” she says.
Her sketches and paintings automatically draw the onlooker to a contemplation of nature and the various colours and forms that help celebrate life.
“In the abstract, you are trying to create the universe. You are not trying to interpret it.”, she says.
While she has chosen subjects that are of direct concern and relevance to her, she is well aware of the fact that “painting has to be distilled through a lot of motifs. It cannot be direct, otherwise it becomes propaganda. There should be certain amount of ambiguity in it.
“I would like to continue to paint, grow in my paintings and grow through them”.
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