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Sadhna Gupta Turns the Human Psyche into an 'Orchestrated Symphony'

Sadhna Gupta Turns the Human Psyche into an 'Orchestrated Symphony'
Sadhna Gupta on Psychology, Abstraction, and the Inner Canvas · thestatesman.com

There is an artist named Sadhna Gupta who used to be a psychologist, which means she helped people talk about their feelings.

Now she is a painter, but she does not paint pictures of things like trees or people that look exactly real.

Instead, she paints colors, lines, shapes and squiggles that show what is going on inside our minds, like hidden worries, dreams and feelings.

She says everyone wears a 'mask' on the outside, while their inside world is full of different emotions.

Her paintings explore ideas like people feeling lost, people trying to find freedom, and people who just want to be themselves.

She named one of her ideas an 'orchestrated symphony' because the messy lines come together like music.

She says there is no right way to understand her art, and each viewer sees something different.

Sadhna says her art is like a mirror that helps people look at their own feelings.

Her paintings have been shown in places like Delhi, Toulouse and Cambridge, and people from different countries all connected with them.

Key facts

Artist
Sadhna Gupta
Creative handle
Sadhu Tree
Former profession
Psychologist
Art style
Self-taught non-representational abstraction
Exhibition locations
Delhi, Toulouse (France), Cambridge (USA)
Interviewer
Neha Purav
Recurring motifs
Masks, street dogs, forests, mazes, butterflies, circles, squares, zigzags
Key themes
Hidden desires, psychological conflict, spirituality, freedom, detachment

Quotes

Sadhna Gupta

Artist and former psychologist

“I want them to give themselves permission to feel and question. We live in a world that constantly demands clarity, order, and neat definitions.”
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“When viewers look at the convergence and divergence of lines and marks, they are forced to confront their own internal landscapes.”
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