Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
The View from My Windows

Visual artist Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad writes: ‘I work primarily with acrylics and gouache, and like to paint scenes from everyday life. I find making mixed-media collages meditative and relaxing, and I use a wide variety of paper bits and cloth remnants in my pieces. These two artworks are from a series that I put together during the lockdown, when the windows of my workspace were my only eyes to the world outside. In my mind’s eye, I saw the places I had been to. I found solace in my recollections. The view through the windows in my artworks are places that hold significance for me which I hope to visit again when travel becomes possible. These days at work in my studio, I look to nature for inspiration through open windows.’

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Outside it is Glorious acrylic and gouache with oil pastels and distress inks, 2020


 

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Freedom, acrylic and gouache with oil pastels and distress inks, 2020