Down the memory lane

Down the memory lane by Anjana Rai

This heavy textured artwork is made using impasto technique with palette knife and is framed in natural pinewood floater frame, ready to hang.
The artwork comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.

Canvas size (In cm)  40 (W) x 50 (H) x 3.8 (D)

Frame size (In cm)  44 (W) x 54 (H)  x 5 (D)

About Artist: Anjana is a Sydney based palette knife artist. Anjana Rai’s art pays appreciation to the organic world of florals and landscapes. Exploring these subjects in tones and textures, her work illuminates the diversity, integrity, and complexity of the natural environment. While majority of her pieces begin as remembered scenes, sights and scapes, her imagination eagerly offers its own insertion, resulting in highly personalised, deeply sincere depictions of nature.

Employing the impasto technique, allows Anjana Rai to create dimensional, tactile works. This approach ensures an element of free-form and steers away from rigid fixation on fine details. With the utilisation of a palette knife to execute the style, and minimal to no brushwork applied, pieces venture into abstract terrain and become intricately messy by consequence.

Anjana’s art can be found in private collections in Australia, India, France, U.S.A and South Korea.

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Indian born, Sydney based visual artist Anjana Rai is a passionate creator, whose reverence for Mother Nature radiates from every corner of her canvas. Foregoing the use of the paint brush in favour of the palette knife, she layers thick portions of oil paints, in a technique known as impasto, to devise impressionistic depictions of florals, land and seascapes. While typically beginning with a basic concept of an image or scene, her works are primarily a union between the external environment and her internal responses.

Breaking with the tradition of depicting fine detail, she embraces a free-flowing, unrestrained style that allows her the independence necessary to experiment with colour portrayal, textured curves, angles and edges. Visualising her work in three-dimensional space, she utilises that view, as well as her innovative artistry, to construct works that showcase the glory of nature, as perceived from her unique cultural and creative perspective.

Since 2019, Anjana Rai’s works have appeared in numerous art shows, galleries and group exhibitions within Australia. Whilst initially exhibiting in Pune, India and in the inner-city suburbs of Sydney, her work has been seen across wider Melbourne and regional Victoria since 2021. She is currently featured in private collections in various states and territories throughout India and Australia.