Vikas Kalra - Artwork 743

Dark vegetal silhouettes emerge from a warm, burnished background in this dramatic composition, where vigorous black strokes and layered colour suggest a bouquet rendered in shadow. The artist’s hand is evident in the vertical drips and scraped passages that give the work a weathered, lived-in surface and a sense of depth beyond the immediate picture plane. Despite the dense, energetic mark-making, moments of colour—blue, green and pale highlights—punctuate the scene and guide the eye through a network of stems and leaves.

The framed presentation and printed border denote an editioned piece, and the overall presence is of a painting that balances figuration and abstraction with muscular confidence.