Multi coloured hues with varying intensities pull your gaze in, each colour alive, embracing you into the depths, each piece curated with passionate intent. Material selection done intelligently and a deep regard for the craft shines through, tiny influences that take her art many notches up. Who is behind the brush? The artist is fashionista Shetal Dewan.
“I feel that the world works on the level of vibrations. Everything we touch or see or even feel is vibrating on a frequency and it is important for us positive as ‘like always attracts like’ similarly art and colour also vibrate on a frequency of power and abundance. Thereby, I begin this process by drawing the diagram of a yantra, which is a geometric design that displays the element to a devine figure and then further abstract it” – Shetal Dewan on what is spiritual art.
Described here is the meaning of what Shetal has painted.
Maya – the illusion
Maya is an illusion, anything that is added to the reality is illusion or maya, and this veiling power is able to create the difference between “me” and ” mine” or ” thee” or “thine”. It creates the ignorance of the individual self.
Vajravarahi- beholder of lightening
her persona is deceptive.. To those who only see her outward appearance she denotes fear without beauty, but if you allow yourself to look deeper beyond the superficial, she bestows one with beauty, knowledge and a sense of belonging.
Kurukulla- the loveable
She’s is a Indian tribal deity who was assimilated by the Buddhist, her essence in this pictorial form represents “she who is the cause of unconditional love”.
Paatla – the red one
Duality …. Dominance and beauty
Devi – the beloved
Devī in the Sanskrit signifies the female aspect of the divine. She is the female counterpart without whom the male aspect, which represents consciousness or discrimination, remains impotent and void. Devi is, quintessentially, the core belief of all manifestation in the human realm.
Nitya -the eternal one
She represents a perpetual, and constant flow of energy… she is eternal (nitya); having the universe as her form. Even so, her coming-into-being is manifold. When she becomes manifest, for the sake of accomplishing the purposes of the gods, Then she is said to be born in the world, even though she is eternal.
Shetal’s works are patronized by many well known people like industrialist Atul Punj, ace choreographer Shiamak Dawar etc.
