Gayatri Gamuz and Supriya Menon Meneghetti's artworks feature the common thread of being influenced by nature, balance and the understanding that a moment of stillness can reveal the clarity of a thousand thoughts. There is an emphasis on the act of creation itself, which allows for interpretation and invites the viewer to experience the work in a deeply personal way.
Gayatri’s paintings blend bold, spontaneous brushstrokes and negative space, much like Zen calligraphy, emphasizing the silence and meditative aspect of the brushstroke with abstract sweeping curves and a direct involvement with the medium and its natural flow. Her artwork seeks to create a dialogue between form and formlessness, between the artist's mind and the viewer's perception. She paints with a patience of an artisan, a silence of a tree, a love of a mother and the calmness of the mountain.
Supriya’s sculptures deeply resonate with creation and destruction. Working with intuition and personal experiences, she explores the relationship between nature and the self. The "creation" works are crafted from a mold of her pregnant belly, from which various forms emerge. Using clay slabs, the walls grow and finally develop into enclosed forms of life — creating a sacred space, a sacred void.
The "destruction" works draw inspiration from a threefold weapon — a spear, dagger, and axe — housed in the Pondicherry Museum. These forms, both independent and interconnected with memories of her childhood growing up in a military family, are the tools of nonjudgmental nature. Here we ponder our present state of war, a thought we constantly live with.
Through these contrasting bodies of work — creation and destruction, emptiness and fullness, peace and conflict — Supriya evokes the balance between opposing forces.
In summary, both Gayatri’s and Supriya’s lifestyles and, hence, their artwork honor the natural world, encourage mindfulness and reflection, and the search for harmony and balance between the self and the larger universe.