Dhruv, Our miracle.
‘Not in matter, but in thought, not in possessions but in ideas, are to be found the seeds of immortality’. Sir JC Bose.
Dhruv, is an idea, the idea that a child must be listened to. When he was fourteen, he expressed unequivocally that he had no interest in going to the special school, he went to for the previous three years. It was a decision thrust on us, by him, to start some kind of home-schooling. Which in a year’s time dwindled to ‘no-schooling’, or a more attractive word ’unschooling’. But the net result was a teenager who was surfing the net for all his needs and seemed to be really happy!
It was at a time like this, trying to get Dhruv
interested in art, that we had our
first teacher, Augustine Thilak, who came in only for about six times, but gave
the boy the freedom to explore paints, the way he wants.
Later in 2016 he was instructed in this 'uninstructed' art by Kavitha Krishnamurthy and Jyotsana Srinivasan.
Time passed and, and time is
the best teacher. I learnt that Dhruv’s compositions had great beauty, I had to
develop a sense of art, that was open to this freedom. The idea of expressing
one’s feelings though colour and movement.
About this time we started framing his works, putting them online and
friends started wanting to procure them.
One of our early buyers was Dr Paulose Thomas who later hung the art in his hospital in Kerala.
Dr Paulose thought the work should be titled 'Cosmogenesis'
Mr Shanker bought this set of four for his home.
We tried collage art.
And digital art!
Art with sand...
Art using spray paint..
Art on Canvas- this is his first canvas work which he called 'Forest'.
Most of his works have been sold to friends, who may have bought them to support him or maybe liked the art. This question doesn't bother Dhruv cause all he wants to do is paint!
He introduces himself to others as an 'Artist'.
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