“I strongly feel that I belong nowhere else but there, in my paintings – my safe space.”
Bhartti Verma is an Indian artist whose paintings serve as a dialogue between the past and present. She immerses the viewer into a world of sublime fantasy, one that feels eerily abandoned. The artist creates a hypnotic dialogue between the objects and spaces of her childhood. Time seems to stand still in this alternate reality where Verma recreates an urban environment of her making. In the crowded city where she was born, she always found herself alone and found solace and peace inside the buildings which she created on her canvas. There is a sense of intense conversation In her works; yet there are no people in her paintings!