Artist Statement

Travel, like art, is uniquely liberating -- an experience of continual exploration and discovery. The sensory information we take in on our travels informs and expands our perceptions, which in turn, gives freedom to new and personal expressions. This symbiotic relationship is the genesis of this experimental series of composite images combining my twin passions.

Crossing international boundaries served as inspiration to push visual ones. By digitally merging photography and traditional painting, I have sought to escape the obvious conventions and redefine the sights, culture, daily living, art and artifacts from my travels on my own terms.

Having grown up in India, where color and variety are an intrinsic part of life and landscape, it's natural that these influences would surface my work. They are reflected in the vivid, highly saturated imagery, the addition of incongruous elements to convey mystery, and the occasional blitz of visual stimuli to enrich and heighten the impressions. The end result: new artistic journeys that transform the physical ones in provocative and unexpected ways.

Bio

Award-winning art director and designer Sunita Jariwala-Gajjar has combined her lifelong passions of art and travel to give birth to her signature project, Earthscapes. She merges photography, traditional painting in a digital process, blurring the nominal boundary of each in order to create an entirely new reality. Sunita's art emerges as a multi-cultural visual language which has garnered recognition by collectors around the globe. You are invited to a participate in an experience that will transcend how you process and remember visual stimuli.

Sunita Jariwala-Gajjar was born in Surat, India. She received her degree in Commercial Art and Textile Design from Sophia Shree Basant Kumar Somani Polytechnic in Mumbai, India. Sunita has lived and worked in the New York/New Jersey area since 1988. Her series entitled Earthscapes was featured at Art Show Zurich in 2010.