Carol has been a long standing client and now a friend. She had an old teak wood table that had been lying around at home. Not really being given the place it should have for its history and long standing service to the family. So she called and asked that I paint it as a […]
Roopa Pai. Author. Friend. Guide. Mentor.Ā She is so many things to me that I really don’t know where to start. I met Roopa many moons ago in 2008 at my first exhibition here in Bangalore. She bought the first Khiladi table I ever painted. AND it still sits in her house š I don’t […]
The Bangalore kettle was a result of inspiration drawn from a Bangalore based ‘Khiladi Table’ that I had done on commission for some one. The table had the usual Carrom, Snakes & Ladders and Chess It also had a Bangalore based monopoly with real estate specific and special to Bangalore. Ā Ā Ā Ā The imagery begged to […]
This one (the kettle, not the movie), was so much fun to conceptualize and create. Over the years my Kamasutra kettle has got a lot of feedback. It is truly amazing to think that ‘publicly and officially’ we are not people who talk about sex openly. India and the Kamasutra go back a long way. […]
I first had the pleasure of interacting with Poornima during my exhibition last year in November at theĀ Page Turners Book Store. She really liked theĀ ‘ India Khiladi Table‘ but by the time she decided on it, it had already been sold. And she wanted me to paint another one.Ā But I was in no mood to […]
I haveĀ just added five of eight new kettles to the ‘Kitsch‘ section and two new Khiladi tables to the ‘Furniture‘ section. For those of you in Bangalore, they are currently on display and ‘for sale’ at the Sattva Arthouse Studio in Whitefield. Only for two days though- 5th and 6th of June 2010. ( Told […]
Mohit and Reena recently shifted from their Diamond District home in Bangalore to a new place in Delhi. They asked me to make a Khiladi table that would also serve to remind them of the fun times they had here in Bangalore. I decided to make a table based on the rough architectural plan of […]
I recently had the pleasure of spending an entire day at Ramya and Bhupender’s place on the outskirts of Bangalore. As you can imagine, I could not have left without taking a picture of the table and the wardrobe!! š
My friends Bhupendra and Ramya asked me to custom-design a ‘khiladi’ table with not just the regular snakes and ladders+chess+carrom, but also a Bangalore based monopoly. It was very interesting to make. Along the way I decided to take help from another good friend, Roopa Pai (of www.bangalorewalks.comĀ fame) who helped me decide what real estate […]