Ishita’s journey in art began as a toddler. As a wide- eyed child searching for play in the smallest elements of the earth, the world of colours fascinated her as an enchantment. Her early years were spent with crayons and paints, beside her father, who shared this interest. As she grew up, her circumstances limited her indulgence, and this love changed form and became a love for paintings and aesthetics. And yet, as life remains dormant at the heart of a seed, that anguish in her to express the innermost something, tortured her through her days… until… she met her guru, Artist Sayaram Waghmare, twenty-three years ago. Holding her by the hand, he led her into the universe of artists, where at last, her soul found peace. She explored the medium of water colours, charcoal, pencil, and then finally, found comfort in oil on canvas.
She decided that her passion lay among the shades of the vast sky, the endless land, the glorious seasons, through which the affections of Mother Nature embrace us. Being an avid traveller throughout the Indian subcontinent, her goal remains to bring out the magnificent diversity of the Indian landscape in her work, seasoned with her own inner vision and imagination.
Having spent more than two decades exploring the boundless beauty of nature through the medium of painting, she is today a life member of two most haloed art organizations in the country, viz., the Art Society of India and the Bombay Art Society. She has participated in various solo and group exhibitions across reputable galleries throughout the country, including Kalaghoda Art Gallery, Mumbai, Kamalanayan Bajaj Hall & Art Gallery, Mumbai, Parijat Art Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, Lokmanya Tilak Art exhibition, Pune, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, Bombay Art Society Gallery, Mumbai, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, and the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Brief note about the exhibition:
This exhibition is my prayer and offering to the natural world, to what is most ancient inside each of us. In the modern world, where all that is familiar has turned upside down, I believe, Nature is the only thread that weaves together the seven continents, that knows no socio-political boundaries, but embraces all.
Every landscape in this series is an impression of Nature, but also far more…they express the melodies of Nature… In Indian classical music, the alaap is a melodic improvisation that introduces and develops the mood of a raga. Here I express different moods and beauty of nature in different seasons, which create a deep impression on our hearts. I use mixed media, including aquarelle and ink to express these melodyscape of Nature.