Hemraj’s recent body of work unfolds as a seamless dialogue between sculpture and painting, between the tangible and the ethereal. His new sculptures emerge from a deep observation of organic life. They are not built in a rigid or mechanical manner; instead, they evolve as nature itself grows—fluid, unpredictable, and alive. Each form carries within it the essence of growth, the rhythm of a living organism. The carvings are soft, the surfaces tender, and the colors radiate with a sense of quiet vitality.
For Hemraj, sculpture is not simply an object to be viewed but an environment to be inhabited. He often expresses that when he stands near his creations, he feels as though he is living inside them. The immersive quality of his forms allows them to transcend their physicality—they become spaces of shelter, spirit, and memory. Even a single sculpture feels monumental, like a fortress (“garh”), yet it is suffused with delicacy and openness. This paradox—of strength and softness, monumentality and intimacy—defines his sculptural language.
Parallel to his sculptural explorations, Hemraj continues to expand the horizons of his abstract paintings. Over the decades, his canvases have established him as one of the leading voices in Indian contemporary abstraction. His philosophy rests on the belief that painting is not a mirror of reality but a field where inner energies, emotions, and meditative states can take visual form. He does not paint what he sees, but what he feels and intuits—transforming moods, silences, and memories into color and gesture.
Technically, Hemraj is a master of layering. His process often begins with expansive strokes, where colors interact in raw intensity. Gradually, he tempers these with subtle glazes, translucent veils of pigment, and deliberate interruptions of texture. This layering produces a visual depth, as if the canvas itself contains multiple time zones—moments of eruption, pauses of reflection, and whispers of infinity. His paintings are thus both immediate and timeless, holding together turbulence and serenity within a single field.
Together, Hemraj’s sculptures and paintings create a continuum. Where the sculptures invite us to enter, the paintings ask us to dissolve. Where the sculptures grow outward like organic shelters, the paintings open inward like vast inner landscapes. His art resists the boundaries of medium, moving instead toward a holistic vision of existence—where matter and spirit, form and formlessness, merge into one continuous act of becoming.
Hemraj’s latest works are not merely aesthetic expressions; they are lived philosophies. They remind us that art, like nature, is always in the process of growth, always unfinished, always alive.
