ANUP PAUL

ADORNED

[Anup Paul — Work]

Colour portraiture built on adornment — banana leaves, saffron, peacock feathers, sindoor, and cobalt.

13 WORKS

Face framed inside curling banana leaves
Profile in embroidered kantha shawl
Saffron block-printed devotional shawl
Red bindi and braided hair in smoke
Portrait crowned in fanned peacock feathers
Veiled colour study
Woven-root costume
Young woman in powder-blue scarf
Goddess-styled portrait with bindi and sindoor
Sculptural cobalt hood
Goddess-styled close portrait with sindoor
Cobalt pillbox hat and birdcage veil
Amber-shrouded figure in a decayed Kolkata doorway