Art the way we like it

I like my walls pristine white with sunlight bouncing off. I like my room flooded with moonlight on dreamy nights. I like books and bags strewn around the living space. BUT. I don’t like art I don’t understand.

So when I bumped into a little birdie painted by Kavita Arvind, I spoke to it. And it introduced me to its friends. And hey! We all get along just fine now.

Kavita Arvind specialises in children’s book illustrations. But of late, she’s been doing work that’s covered my pristine white walls with bright splashes of colour. Chidiya Udd is what she calls all these happy things. Her style takes me back to the days when I used to sit and stare at the pictures in a storybook and get lost in them. For hours (and with absolutely no help from alcohol or any other substance).

A mix of old school paintings and modern day scribbles filled with a lot of rich colours. I absolutely fell for it. She has a beautiful series on birds, and then another one on trees. Then the people series and then the cat one. By then I was purring. I was torn between the bird and the tree. I finally settled for both.

So if you’re looking for affordable art your kid sister can talk about and you can wake up to every morning, you know which li’l birdie you need to call.

Kavita Arvind. A-406, Fourth Floor, Purva Sunshine, Main Sarjapur Road, Bangalore 560008. Email: chidiyaudd@gmail.com. URL: www.chidiyaudd.in. Phone: (91) (80) 98860 53176. Prices range from Rs 7000 to Rs 22000. Contact the artist to have her courier her work to other cities.