De Soleil Rose

Acrylic, pigment, pastels on manjarpatta

48 x 56 inches

2025

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Displayed at Art Mumbai 2025 with Akara Contemporary.

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In order to challenge the familiar boundaries of my practice and opening up a new space within my work to see how far colour and gesture could carry emotion. During this process I came across a landscape by the late Lebanese artist Etel Adnan, whose work I have long admired. That landscape awash with the gentle hues of a pink sunset became the starting point of this work's colour palette.

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'De Soleil Rose', which translates to the pink sun in french, hints at that source of inspiration. The composition unfolds as a conversation between softness and intensity, where delicate flesh tones and cadmium yellow meet the bold, striking sweeps of cobalt and prussian blue. These overlapping gestures evoke both tenderness and resistance, fluidity and form. A quiet negotiation between liberation and control.