Piece description from the artist
Title: Beautiful Bane 01
Medium: Heavy Textured Oil Pastels on Paper
Size: 39 × 47 inches
"What harms us also shapes us."
Beautiful Bane is a visual meditation on the emotional burdens we carry and the unexpected strength they yield. Born from this paradox, the series explores how grief, shame, rejection, and fear—our quiet banes—transform us. Though often suppressed, these inner weights contain the seeds of resilience, identity, and even beauty.
Through this body of work, I examine the tension between suffering and self-discovery, vulnerability and power. Each painting captures an emotional truth as it erupts into form and color—not to define pain, but to reveal how it moves, breathes, and ultimately, creates.
Artistic Language
My paintings are vivid tapestries of emotion and gesture—an expressive dance where thought and feeling converge in motion. Working on a large scale allows each piece to feel immersive and alive, like a memory suspended on paper. Color becomes my language: bold, intuitive, and unrestrained. It speaks what words often cannot.
There is no separation between the mind and the brush. Each stroke is both an act of intention and surrender. What emerges is not a static image, but an emotional landscape—where raw experience becomes energy, rhythm, and flow.
Floral Expressions as Emotional States
Recurring throughout Beautiful Bane are abstracted floral forms—not as literal blossoms, but as emotional metaphors. These organic shapes become vessels of transformation: blooming with grace, scarred by memory, and thriving in defiance. Each petal, each curve, is a gesture of emotional honesty—untamed, radiant, and deeply alive.
Through these forms, the natural world is reimagined as a space of emotional intensity, where the line between beauty and suffering dissolves into something wholly human.
Invitation to the Viewer
Beautiful Bane is not only a visual experience, but a deeply felt one. Each painting invites you to pause, breathe, and look inward. To find yourself in the brushstrokes. To feel familiarity in the chaos. To witness the quiet resilience that blooms in unexpected places.
These works are an offering—of truth, of transformation, and of the poetic power that lives within pain.
Poonam Choudhary is a distinguished contemporary abstract artist, whose work is deeply influenced by her personal journey of self-discovery and the pursuit of contentment. With a bold and expressive approach, her dynamic compositions are defined by sweeping shapes, vibrant colors, and intricate layered textures. Each piece invites the viewer into an exploration of both visual and emotional depth, encouraging a deeper engagement with the work while allowing for personal interpretation and connection.
At the core of Poonam’s artistic practice is a profound engagement with the ephemeral—capturing fleeting moments suspended in time that resonate with emotional depth. Her art transcends the visible, reflecting the spaces between breaths, the tension between stillness and motion, and the fragile equilibrium of being alive. Each canvas serves as a portal, each brushstroke an exploration of the unspoken. Poonam’s process is a fluid dialogue between intention and instinct, where the materials themselves guide her, revealing both personal and universal truths.
Working primarily with high-quality acrylics, Poonam harnesses the medium's fluidity and depth to build rich, multilayered works that evoke a sense of movement and emotional complexity. Her creative process embraces the tension between control and surrender, allowing the work to unfold organically and intuitively.
In recent years, Poonam has been particularly absorbed by capturing the delicate balance of the present moment—the instant when transformation and stillness coexist, when impermanence itself becomes palpable. This interplay between change and stability is central to her exploration of visual and emotional dynamics. The shifting of shapes, the vibrancy of color, and the subtle power of contrast are recurring elements in her work, each chosen to convey the profound beauty of life’s transient nature.
Color plays a pivotal role in Poonam’s compositions. She views it as a dynamic force, where colors converse, vibrate, and interact with one another. The tension between contrasting hues—where one retreats as another advances—creates a visual language that mirrors the complexity of human emotions. This dialogue of harmony and discord within her works speaks to the ever-evolving nature of the human experience.
Through her art, Poonam invites viewers into a space of reflection, where form and emotion converge. Her work is not merely a visual experience but an emotional journey, one that encourages personal reflection and introspection. Each piece offers an opportunity to witness the viewer's own truth, capturing the delicate equilibrium between the fleeting present and the infinite.
Poonam’s work continues to evolve as she refines her artistic vision and shares her interpretations of the human condition. She is grateful for the opportunity to connect with those who pause to engage with her creations, allowing their own experiences and reflections to breathe life into her art.
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