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Divya Singh’s Paintings Explore Light, Solitude and Fragile Life
Divya Singh is an artist from Delhi who paints quiet moments from everyday life.
Her paintings show things like empty buses, windows, cars and people resting.
These scenes can feel lonely, but they also show comfort and peace.
Singh thinks a peaceful moment can be very fragile and might disappear.
She uses watercolours, acrylic paint and oil paint in layers.
This makes the light in her paintings look as if it is glowing from inside.
She says light feels connected to love and something divine.
Her work is being shown in a solo exhibition called “Sounds from the Attic.”
Delhi-based artist Divya Singh’s solo exhibition, “Sounds from the Attic,” features oil paintings of intimate, dreamlike moments.
Singh says drawing became a way to communicate, spend time with her sister and create a place where she could exist.
Her paintings often explore solitude, peace, memory and the fragility of human life through scenes such as empty buses, windows and parking lots.
Singh creates each work in layers of watercolour, acrylic and oil to produce a luminous, lit-from-within effect.
After selling her first painting in 2019, Singh says she became less emotionally attached to her work; her paintings now sell for Rs 25,000 to Rs 12 lakh.
- Who
- Delhi-based artist Divya Singh, represented by Shrine Empire since 2021, is the central figure.
- What
- Singh is exhibiting oil paintings that explore light, solitude, memory and the fragility of human life.
- Where
- Her solo show, “Sounds from the Attic,” is being held at Shrine gallery in Delhi.
- When
- Singh sold her first artwork in 2019; she completed her Master’s in 2018 and exhibited at Delhi Contemporary Art Week in 2022.
- Why
- Singh paints to examine quiet moments, inner experience, peace, solitude and the way light shapes her perception.
Key facts
- Artist
- Divya Singh
- Exhibition
- Sounds from the Attic
- Venue
- Shrine gallery, Delhi
- First artwork sold
- 2019
- Current artwork prices
- Rs 25,000 to Rs 12 lakh
- Painting technique
- Watercolour, acrylic and oil layered on canvas
- Representation
- Shrine Empire has represented Singh since 2021
Quotes
Anahita Taneja
Co-founder of Shrine Empire, which has represented Singh since 2021
“Divya is an incredibly skilled painter, with a rare ability to keep the dreamlike imagery of her inner world alive on the canvas. There is something haunting about her work — the images seem to hover between memory and imagination, between something lived and something half-remembered.”
indianexpress.com
“Light affects the way I perceive everything. My earliest memories were informed by it. I have a deep relationship with light and it’s one that I have never really questioned or articulated.”
indianexpress.com
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