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new collections of 20 artworks released annually
THE MAJESTIC RECLUSE
HEARTLAND
Cut & Taste reflects the wanderer’s adventurous yet isolating experience of living in the city. Created while the artist lived in central London, the artwork conveys a series of fragmented, “cut and paste” experiences opportunities that felt uncertain, fleeting, and unformulated. The grey space represents the neutrality and ambiguity of the city, while a floating knife marks the precarious path the artist navigated. At the tip of the knife is a tree, symbolising nature, creativity, spirituality, and life the true source of magic. Moving through this two-dimensional reality, the artist had to balance risk and uncertainty at every step. Cut & Taste captures the tension, jeopardy, and forced creativity of city life, exploring both its allure and its loneliness, and reflecting the courage required to traverse its ever-shifting landscape. DESCRIPTION - The City experience is a sequence of snapshots and soundbites. Many come for a cut of the action while others dream of tasting the edge. CREATED : 2013 - LONDON, UK MEDIUM : PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION, DIGITAL.
MAGIC CIRCLE
Magic Circle is a modern interpretation of the Ramayana, the story of Rama, Sita, and Ravana. It depicts Sita protected by the circle Rama created around her, a symbol of love, loyalty, and connection. The golden tones reference the golden deer that Ravana used to tempt Sita, drawing her beyond the circle. Ravana is shown in dark underground branches, a shadowy presence beneath the scene. In the centre, Rama and Sita are together, adorned with intricate Mehndi-inspired patterns, symbolising the texture of life and their bond. An egg in the middle represents union, the bow and arrow signify protection and focus, and the composition merges myth with a modern abstract aesthetic. Hanuman, the Monkey Lord, is included with his tail, crown, and wings, carrying the world of Lanka in his hand. This artwork reimagines an ancient story through contemporary eyes, capturing devotion, temptation, and the power of love. DESCRIPTION - Rama’s love surrounds Sita, unbroken and unyielding, a force that protects and guides her. Even in darkness, their bond shines, a golden circle of trust, devotion, and unwavering connection. CREATED : 2015 - DELHI, INDIA. MEDIUM : ILLUSTRATION, 3D MODELING, PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGTAL.
AGES
Ages reflects on the evolving relationship between humans and the Earth across time. The artwork depicts a large arm representing the planet, with four hands symbolising the agricultural, industrial, technological, and spiritual periods of human evolution, each shaping and impacting the natural world. As humans extract, build, and manipulate, the Earth undergoes gradual decay, showing how our actions leave lasting marks. The agricultural age works with the land, the industrial and technological ages exploit it, and the spiritual age, represented as a queen, may determine the next phase. Hidden clues in the piece hint that the AI era, disguised as spiritual, could become an overriding factor in our existence. The work asks whether humanity will create a destructive period or awaken to a more conscious, natural, and collaborative way of living. DESCRIPTION - The agricultural, industrial, and technological ages have left their mark on this earth.Will the spiritual age be the pawn that dethrones the age of man? CREATED : 2012/17 - MANCHESTER, BERLIN, DUBAI, UK MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION, DIGITAL, 3D.
LOVE EXPERIENCE
Love Experience intricately depicts the seven stages of a romantic relationship, exploring both connection and the dissolution of love. In Infatuation, the couple parades their strengths, hiding vulnerability and past heartache beneath a polished facade. Exploration captures physical intimacy and the fire of passion, while Organisation reflects attempts to conform, establish a lasting union, and synchronize actions, planting seeds, fertilising eggs, and mimicking each other. Realisation reveals the truth of incompatibility: masks are removed, emotions turned off, and the couple confronts the death of desire and the self, depicted through half-human, half-machine forms and crucifix-like stances. Separation freezes them as statues, memories of love lost. Emancipation shows the subject striving to return to the ordinary world—three legs symbolising desperation, an exploded heart, handcuffs as newfound freedom, yet constrained by the ego, the blue figure that perpetuates the cycle of desire. Love Experience examines the complex interplay of attraction, loss, and liberation, inviting reflection on the human journey through love and self-discovery. DESCRIPTION - Love, an experience like no other… Infatuation, exploration, organisation, realisation, separation and emancipation. Stage by stage, we dream, we learn, we crash and burn. And like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, we then do it all over again. And again, and again. CREATED : 2014/18 - AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION, DIGITAL, 3D MODELING, EVERYTHING!
FATHERS DAY
Father’s Day was created after months in India observing the dynamics between men and women in everyday life. I noticed how often the woman was at the centre—cooking, caring, holding everything together, while the father stood nearby, watching, almost detached, present but removed. This tension inspired the artwork: a woman, cracked yet rooted, her dress formed of green blossoms and leaves, holding the earth in her hands as if trying to keep life itself intact. She embodies both mother and Mother Nature, struggling yet steadfast, fragile yet essential. Above, a distant planet represents the father, watching from afar. The piece questions whether his role is to remain an observer, or whether this is simply how society has framed it. DESCRIPTION - A woman holds the weight of the world, her strength both fragile and unshakable. The father remains distant, a silent planet circling her gravity. CREATED : 2014 - CHENNAI, INDIA. MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION & DIGITAL.
MAGIC PUDDLE
Magic Puddle Manchester is part of a series of Magic Puddles created by the artist to reflect different locations and stages of his journey, with Manchester as the central piece. Over a decade, while living in the city centre and struggling to communicate his creativity, the artist walked the streets, photographing and sketching landmarks. One evening, inspired by a poem about reflection, he imagined the city in a puddle, half the skyline upside down, representing both challenges and triumphs. The top layer captures the difficulties he faced, the bottom the growth, opportunity, and expansion of his creativity. The work celebrates the resilience and reflective spirit of Manchester and its people. With 99 landmarks and hidden references to the artist himself, the piece is a watercolour-like digital landscape that can be viewed from any angle, always conveying magic, evolution, and wonder. DESCRIPTION - Manchester is my miracle city. I appreciate those who give it life. I acknowledge those who inject industry and creativity into the lifeless. Some survive it while others thrive in it. Manchester reflects all those who make it through its Magic Puddle. CREATED : 2017 - MANCHESTER, UK MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION, DIGITAL, WATER COLOUR.
EMOJI LOVE
Emoji Love displays an array of 99 emojis that form the image of two people kissing, transforming simple digital symbols into a narrative of contemporary romance. Each emoji represents a feeling—happiness, fear, anger, desire, frustration—building a language of emotion that transcends words. Inspired by how communication has shifted in the digital age, the artwork reflects on love experienced through screens, where interaction can be instant, curated, and safe, yet distant. Symbols, like hieroglyphs or ancient scripts, have always allowed humans to convey meaning, and here emojis become a modern evolution of that instinct. Emoji Love captures both the intimacy and the detachment of contemporary affection, showing how emotion persists even in an increasingly digital world. DESCRIPTION - Old-fashioned, traditional love is no longer the norm. Nowadays, the experience begins with symbols projected on the screens of electronic boxes. No more dates, real interactions, or bad experiences. We can remain still and simply engage others with emojis. CREATED : 2013 - LOS ANGELES, USA MEDIUM : ILLUSTRATION, DIGITAL.
HEAD OF STATE
Head of State was originally created as an album cover but evolved into a deeply personal exploration of the artist’s journey. The artwork is a complex amalgamation of engine parts, machines, nature, cityscapes of London and Manchester, and references to industry, politics, and spirituality. At first glance it appears abstract, but hidden within are optical illusions and a face, the artist himself, revealing a story of ascent and uncertainty. At the bottom, the artist climbs a ladder from a personal hell of creative struggle, navigating a chaotic, machine-like art world filled with closed doors and dead ends. Red spikes represent fire, his challenges and past hardships. The piece shows that the industry, the obstacles, and the perceived “hell” exist only in the mind. Head of State embodies self-ownership, the power of creativity, and the idea that true artistry arises from creating through chaos, independent of external labels or systems. DESCRIPTION - As a young artist, I was somewhere between a self-created hell and an industry that was made up of machines, rules and dead ends. I instinctively kept moving towards a principle. I am art, and I am industry. I am the head of State! CREATED : 2011 - LONDON, UK MEDIUM : PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION, DIGITAL, CRAYON, WATER COLOUR.
IDENTIFY ME
Identify Me was born from meeting Lakshmi, a girl in rural India whose presence completely reframed my understanding of life. Despite carrying immense responsibility, caring for seven children, working across schools, navigating hardship, she moved through the world with a grace, joy, and love that was effortless. Her humility, strength, and clarity of self challenged every assumption I held about wealth, education, and need. She had no conflict with her identity, her surroundings, or her future; she simply was, fully present and fully alive, flowing with life as it came. Every gesture, every moment she existed in radiated generosity and culture. This artwork captures that quiet majesty, her veil a symbol of her lineage, resilience, and innate dignity. Identify Me is Lakshmi, and through her, a reminder of the power in simplicity and the freedom in selfhood. DESCRIPTION - Beholder of many identities, daughter, wife, sister, bread-maker, mother, lover, labourer and slave, all these I am.Ambition is as foreign to me as the people I serve. I move unseen, loving unconditionally. Although apparently bound, I am at peace, content within myself. What is freedom anyway? Beyond concepts and prejudices, I love my family, my culture and the colours of my world. I am free. Are you? CREATED : 2011 - VRINDAVAN, INDIA. MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL.
BRICK LANE
Brick Lane captures both the spirit and the loss of Shoreditch’s creative community. The brick, alive with colours of graffiti, symbolises the artists whose work once gave the area its vibrancy. From the gutter, oil seeps, forming a hole where a small businessman emerges, representing how commerce rose from the gutter to overshadow the culture it consumed. Within the oil, the shadowed outline of Shoreditch appears, its reflection shaped as a £10 note, showing how money redefined identity. This imagery speaks to a community once rich in diversity of cultures, ideas, and creatives who made the streets a living art gallery. Brick Lane is a dedication to those artists and people from Shoreditch, and a reminder of how authenticity is being replaced by gentrified, homogenized non-culture. DESCRIPTION - The freedom of art lives in Brick Lane, the shadow of Shoreditch awaits gentrification and monetisation of the free. CREATED : 2015 - LONDON, UK MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION,DIGITAL
WANDERLUST
Wanderlust captures the complexity and chaos of urban life, a city both mesmerizing and overwhelming. Golden leaves, intricate patterns, and textures drawn from nature and global artefacts form a semi-abstract montage, hinting at hidden order within disorder. Two figures on either side, butterflies in hand, suggest moments of pause, reflection, and connection amid the constant motion. Streets, maps, and straight lines weave subtly through the composition, grounding the work in real-world experience while the abstract layers invite personal interpretation. The piece reflects the artist’s fascination with perception: how cities present themselves versus how they are truly experienced, and how we navigate beauty, confusion, and discovery. It is an exploration of desire, inspiration, and the layered, wondrous ways our minds engage with the world around us. DESCRIPTION - At a glance, the city's magic is utterly seductive. It is shiny, sexy and decorated to attract. However, the closer you look, the face offers nothing more than broken dreams, conceptual living, and repetitive patterns in undefined lines. CREATED : 2016 - LONDON, UK MEDIUM : ILLUSTRATION, PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL & 3D MODELING.
MUSIC
Music is a devotion to sound, vibration, and the unseen energy that shapes our world. At its centre, a ball of light bursts with musical instruments, xylophone, piano, guitar, drums, brass torn apart to reveal their inner mechanisms, bent and reimagined, showing the raw force of creation. Wings, glitter, and fantastical elements swirl through the composition, symbolising wonder, magic, and curiosity. Planets and cosmic references echo how music connects us to the universe, conveying emotions, memory, and shared human experience. This piece reflects on a time when music was pure, a language of feeling and life, before technological manipulation transformed sound into engineered sensation. It celebrates music as a living, breathing force that shapes minds, bodies, and spirits. DESCRIPTION - Seven notes can produce a million masterpieces. When I hear music, I see colours, patterns, shapes, energy, shadows, auras, candy floss, exotic birds, the galaxy, my future, my past, love, fear, pain, belief, awareness, compassion, Debussy, candy floss, desire, passion, contrast, the devil and God. CREATED : 2012 - MANCHESTER, UK MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION,DIGITAL
LOVE EXPERIENCE
Beyond Skin was born from a vision to honour women who had endured the cruelty of acid attacks and yet rose as living embodiments of resilience, dignity and power. At its heart lies a rose, beauty adorned with thorns, declaring that true beauty cannot be owned, harmed, or diminished, only revered. The petals unfold into galaxies, stars and cosmic fields, symbolising that identity and worth extend far beyond the surface. Around this rose gather women rendered not as broken, but as elemental formed of water, stone, wood, and earth their faces sacredly shielded, not in shame, but in protection of their deeper essence. Among them, one stands fully open to the cosmos, unscarred yet no more radiant than the others, reminding us that beauty is not skin, but spirit. Beyond skin lies truth, and in truth, immeasurable power. DESCRIPTION - The world is living, breathing art. There is no such thing as perfection. It is the flaws that make us human. Embrace your nature and uncover the texture. CREATED : 2017 - LONDON, UK. MEDIUM : PAINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION, DIGITAL & 3D MODELING.
POP QUEEN
Pop Queen was inspired by the language of Andy Warhol and the idea of profiles, silhouettes, and repetition. The artwork takes the most famous profile in British culture, the Queen’s head stamped onto currency and postage - and reshapes it into a playful game. Each head is formed in the Queen’s outline but filled with the profiles of other cultural icons: actors, musicians, comedians, and film characters. Some are instantly recognisable, others more ambiguous, which makes the piece an interactive puzzle for the viewer. The work questions how much we really know about public figures. We see them endlessly, their images repeated until they become symbols rather than people, yet their true personalities remain hidden. Through humour, colour, and popular culture, Pop Queen asks whether the face we recognise is ever enough to know the person behind it. DESCRIPTION - Indeed the Queen has a personality beyond the one stamped in our heads. She is an icon disguised as popular icons. CREATED : 2012 - LONDON, UK MEDIUM : ILLUSTRATION & DIGITAL.