A series inspired by lyrics from the Beatles

Trishla Jain’s works were recently on display in Mumbai after having been showcased in the capital city of India earlier this year.

Her exhibition, entitled ‘Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies’, underlined how she has put her creativity to optimum use. In fact, she has been painting the age of seven. In spite of no formal training in art, she has received critical applause with her whimsical, provocative and spontaneous paintings.

Her artistic style and approach is very versatile. This reflects in the fact that she can employ various bold and deft brush strokes as well as impasto techniques while working on wallpapers, and Shakespearean words in order to convey a subtle artistic message.

Her recent series of works was inspired by famous lyrics from the Beatles. even as the artist foraged through the peculiar past - as timeless as the Bhagavad Gita and as recent as Eminem - to compose curious collages of comments. It was a warm display of candy pop colors, of a flurry of words, glorious paints, curios and interesting ideas. It reflected her personality itself: a bundle of contradictions that juxtaposes sauciness and serenity, deep thought and joie de vivre.

Trishla Jain likes to label her paintings and installations as 'found art', but what dominates it is the jovial juxtaposition of the unusual. Cut-out frames actually framed nothing specific, and lime green furniture bore serene sepia-tinted imagery.

Artimus Tiger pondered even as a hobby horse rocked, a jewelry cutouts’ collage spilled across a table, cutting down conspicuous consumption to 2D - the timeless remark ‘I’m the highest truth; I’m the greatest peace; I’m the grandest love’ drifted round inside a triptych, and ended with the ultimate realization, ‘I am’. Were they simple comments? Pointed critiques?

What marks ‘Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies’ is her more assured strokes, and more confident motifs.