The painting room: Where artworks are created

The studio is a curious shape-shifting space, changing from artist to artist

Mar 17, 2017, 10:18 IST3 min

<strong>RIYAS KOMU</strong><br /><em>Dahisar, Mumbai</em><br /><br />I have kept my painting studio separate from my sculpture studio, where a lot of dust from the wood work accumulates. I have developed the space architecturally, physically, and at the same time created a camaraderie with many of the people who occupy that space along with me&mdashassistants, carpenters, carvers. It is about comfort, and not just about the physical aspect. In my painting studio, I work alone with inspiring Sufi music playing in the background.<br /><br />

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RIYAS KOMUDahisar, MumbaiI have kept my painting studio separate from my sculpture studio, where a lot of dust from the wood work accumulates. I have developed the space architecturally, physically, and at the same time created a camaraderie with many of the people who occupy that space along with me&mdashassistants, carpenters, carvers. It is about comfort, and not just about the physica

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KRISHEN KHANNADLF Phase 1, GurugramIt&rsquos hardly a decision for me to go down to my basement every day. One may sit in comfortable rooms and talk ideas, but they have to fructify. Art has to&hellip materialise. My studio isn&rsquot a tidy salon. But it&rsquos here that I come alive, forget my aches and pains. I stand for hours. There are certain compulsions in the work. The canvas talk

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BOSE KRISHNAMACHARIDahisar, MumbaiLife itself is art. Space means nothingness. To find forms within nothingness is your ability. You create your own eyes. You invent form, colour and texture. You invent from nothingness. Space, according to me, is nothingness. And the darkest space is almost like the pupil of your eye. It reflects the maximum. The darkness&mdashyou can call it emptiness,

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JOGEN CHOWDHURYSouth City, KolkataFor a long time, this studio has been in repose, just like its bigger counterpart in Shantiniketan. My carpe-diemist self has always encouraged me to wrest something &lsquoextraordinary&rsquo out of the ordinariness of living. I paint in leisure. I paint when I am happy. I paint when I am sad. And each time, I rejoice in attaining something new, almost fi

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MANJUNATH KAMATHVasant Kunj, New DelhiMy studio is a reflection of my artworks: A little of the space filled in, a lot of it left empty. This place houses my collection of traditional and folk art (points to a leather puppet from Andhra and a bhoota figure from Mangaluru on the far wall of the studio) which I have been collecting since childhood. These artworks inspire me and appear in my

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RAMESHWAR BROOTATriveni Kala Sangam, New DelhiThis space where I create my works also doubles up as my office as the head of the Department of Art at Triveni Kala Sangam where I teach. I don&rsquot work in isolation like a lot of artists do. It&rsquos essential that I have all this life around me, these students working in the other rooms down the corridor, the interruptions. Yet, amidst

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THOTA VAIKUNTAMJubilee Hills, HyderabadSpace is everything. And controlling space is our main problem as artists. When we lived in a smaller house in Chikkadpally [a locality in central Hyderabad], I would be painting in the room and my wife and kids did their chores around me. Our family is used to it, but such an arrangement doesn&rsquot suit everybody. Having an individual space to wor

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