Catalogue / Sayali Khanvilkar
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Shown at true size: 30 × 30 cm. About the size of an A4 sheet. The person is about 170 cm tall. Every work is shown whole, never cropped.
Sayali Khanvilkar
Inner world
A dark beak breathes into a field of white
Red, deep as the inside of a closed eye.
A dark head curls in its own rings, covered in small white stitches.
A gold line runs through it like a vein.
At the tip of the beak, a breath of grey.
Then the white begins: thick, ridged, turning in slow circles.
Something is listening there or being heard.
The work
Inner world is a 2026 acrylic painting by Sayali Khanvilkar. A dark creature with a long beak curls inside bands of red and black. Fine pale strokes cover its body. Thin gold lines run along it. The beak meets a wide grey-white field. Here the paint is thick and rises in ridges that circle out like a fingerprint. Khanvilkar has always lived in Mumbai. She studied at Sir J.J. School of Art. Her work grows from form, space and the stillness of nature.
Not for sale
Shown with the artist’s permission. This work is not for sale.
- Theme
- Inner life and nature
- Material
- Acrylic
- Size
- 30 × 30 cm
- Year
- 2026
- About the artist
- Sir j j school of art mumbai
- From
- Mumbai
- Code
- RC-8534
In the artist’s words
I am born and have always lived in the rapidly evolving, city of Mumbai. Its stark contrast to everything natural has enhanced my fondness of nature and its miracles quite a bit over the years. This dichotomy inspires me to work more sensitively, directly. What the universe entails, that creates and nurtures us, imbibes in me the liberty, calm, stability, tactile pleasures and displeasures.The thought of my work is mainly on the present time, surrounding incidents, nature and personal experiences. Humanity is slowly drifting true source nature and this disconnection is deeply unsettling. In the relentless pursuit of progress and competition, we have trapped ourselves in an endless race that…
