'Painting took me up'
Delhi-based artist Anjanna Kuthiala, whose Shah Rukh Khan portraits had created instant buzz, talks about her love for art, on her recent visit here
From modeling to painting, Delhi-based artist Anjanna Kuthiala's journey till now has been pretty interesting. Ask her how art figured in her scheme of things and she is quick to point out that it was always there. "Actually, I didn't take up painting. Painting took me up. I used to draw faces and right through school I had art as a subject. I studied art in Mumbai too. It was always like I knew it all… as if I could teach my teachers!" she laughs, before going on to explain, "Art is a God given talent, you can only hone it. Painting faces comes naturally."
Her paintings came into the limelight with her series on Shah Rukh Khan's portraits and now she can't wait to pay a tribute to women from various walks of life. "I am working on a concept where I am painting well known women from different walks of life — including Sheila Dixit (Chief Minister of Delhi), Princess Diya Kumari of Jaipur, designer Pria Kataaria Puri, Poonam Sinha (Sonakshi Sinha's mother) and Vandana Malik (Avantika Malik's mother) among others," she informs excitedly. Interestingly, after her SRK series, there's been no Bollywood muse for Anjanna. "There was a phase when I did portraits of Shah Rukh, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu… now I want to only concentrate on women. I've anyway been painting lots of faceless women and that forms a major chunk of my body of work," she smiles, adding that the epitome of womanhood to her is philanthropist Nita Ambani. "She represents a junoon and is really inspiring as the woman of today. I'd like to do a series on her," reveals Anjanna.
For artistic inspiration, Anjanna doesn't really need to look outside. "I'm my own inspiration. My tribute to womanhood will be inspiration from the woman of substance. Each woman has something in her that has fired the artist in me," Anjanna asserts. Ask her if she'd like to paint Mumbai and she quips, "Oh yes! Mumbai is very close to my heart. I've spent some of the best years of my life here. I owe a lot to the city as an artist because this is where my journey as an artist really took shape," says Anjanna, who recently exhibited her works at the Nehru Centre.
Delhi-based artist Anjanna Kuthiala, whose Shah Rukh Khan portraits had created instant buzz, talks about her love for art, on her recent visit here
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From modeling to painting, Delhi-based artist Anjanna Kuthiala's journey till now has been pretty interesting. Ask her how art figured in her scheme of things and she is quick to point out that it was always there. "Actually, I didn't take up painting. Painting took me up. I used to draw faces and right through school I had art as a subject. I studied art in Mumbai too. It was always like I knew it all… as if I could teach my teachers!" she laughs, before going on to explain, "Art is a God given talent, you can only hone it. Painting faces comes naturally."
Her paintings came into the limelight with her series on Shah Rukh Khan's portraits and now she can't wait to pay a tribute to women from various walks of life. "I am working on a concept where I am painting well known women from different walks of life — including Sheila Dixit (Chief Minister of Delhi), Princess Diya Kumari of Jaipur, designer Pria Kataaria Puri, Poonam Sinha (Sonakshi Sinha's mother) and Vandana Malik (Avantika Malik's mother) among others," she informs excitedly. Interestingly, after her SRK series, there's been no Bollywood muse for Anjanna. "There was a phase when I did portraits of Shah Rukh, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu… now I want to only concentrate on women. I've anyway been painting lots of faceless women and that forms a major chunk of my body of work," she smiles, adding that the epitome of womanhood to her is philanthropist Nita Ambani. "She represents a junoon and is really inspiring as the woman of today. I'd like to do a series on her," reveals Anjanna.
For artistic inspiration, Anjanna doesn't really need to look outside. "I'm my own inspiration. My tribute to womanhood will be inspiration from the woman of substance. Each woman has something in her that has fired the artist in me," Anjanna asserts. Ask her if she'd like to paint Mumbai and she quips, "Oh yes! Mumbai is very close to my heart. I've spent some of the best years of my life here. I owe a lot to the city as an artist because this is where my journey as an artist really took shape," says Anjanna, who recently exhibited her works at the Nehru Centre.
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