Ashwin: Soul-inspired painter uses skill to celebrate women

Some of the creative works of Ashwin Patel. [Anjellah Owino, Standard]

Ashwin Patel’s body of work, ‘Awakening’, is a blend of monochromatic and multicoloured art pieces. The ‘soul-inspired artist’ experiments with black gel pens, markers, jewelry, fabrics and acrylic paints to compose stories in form of realities and abstract.

Ashwin celebrates womanhood, drawing images of women using a gel pen and adorns them with actual colourful neck-pieces and pairs of earrings. In other pieces, he coats on African prints using markers and acrylic paints to centre on themes of Hindu culture, nature and family. More than 60 of these pieces are stored at his home as he awaits the opening show at Exhibition Hall in Village Market on October 9. This week-long exhibition was curated by William Ndwiga of Little Art Gallery.