HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Kishori Kaul (Retrospective)
2023

Texts: Meera Menezes

Foreword: Mamta Singhania

Publication Design: Reha Sodhi


“Her skillful handling of colour comes to the fore in her rendering of efflorescence as can be glimpsed in her paintings from the 1990s. Her technique of employing oil paint as she would watercolours impart a delicate feel to these works. Impressionist tendencies too can be spotted in the daubs of paint and her adroit harnessing of light. As ethereal forms arise, melt and dissolve they evoke transient, ephemeral sensations. The play of hide-and-seek in  these artworks that border on abstraction was certainly intentional. As Kaul herself mentioned, "I believe in the art of suggestion; in the artist's need to veil as much as reveal."


(excerpt from the catalogue essay, How Green Was My Valley?, by Meera Menezes)