The sinuous form of a lady - the pallu of her sari covering her head - reaches out to pluck a fruit from a tree in the paintings of Padma Bhushan awardee artist A. Ramachandran which are on view at Vadehra Art Gallery.
As the tree bends towards her to offer its riches, nature swarms the canvas in geometrical shapes such as the pattern of flowers flowing towards the protagonist, and the ever present chameleon climbing up the tree trunk.
The simple wonders of rural life live through the works of the Kerala-born artist, who counts masters like Ramkinkar Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee as his teachers. Between 1961 and 1964, Ramachandran did his doctoral thesis on Kerala mural painting. By the mid-60s, he had moved to Delhi and in 1965 he joined Jamia Millia Islamia as a lecturer in art education.
