About Poonam Rana - Poonam’s style cannot be linked with the influence of any known artist. Her
creativity is absolutely independent of any such influences. Her canvasses are
expansive, and at times give an impression that they cannot even be contained
within the frame. Her style is boundless. This can happen only when one takes a
new path, a new approach, a new challenge, or a new vision. Only when creativity is
unrestricted and truly independent, can one create abstract images of the cosmos,
as has been displayed by the artist in her recent works.
Her genre of the current body of work can be classified as “Contemporary
Abstractionism”. In her paintings, there are overtones of the contemporary being
linked to the modernistic style. She pays homage to the great masters of modernism,
for they have shown her the road ahead. She has stated that her works,
contemporary though they may be, have no linkages with the avant-garde. Nor does
she consider that her art depicts current societal conditions, trends, patterns, or
ideas that contemporary art normally brings out. Her depictions, she says, reflect a
vision of her passion and quest for the eternal. What she has internalized can only
be conveyed through abstraction. It is only through the genre of Contemporary
Abstractionism that her perception of the absolute truth can be externalized, through
a medium of color and form.
Poonam has evolved to this state after a severe period of trial and tribulation.
The life of this artist has been grueling. It is not easy to relinquish the routine, or the
established, or the less challenging, to forge ahead with your own beliefs; purely on
the strength of your mind. She has done this, both, in her life and in her work. This
strength of character, and unbound creativity, is evident in her body of work. Her
works will continue to seek greater depth of our understanding of the true state of our
being, as well as our visualization of Brahmand.
