Anki’s journey started in Sikkim, surrounded, as she says, by vast spaces, thousands of trees, among orchards and farms. She travelled through her country, commited herself to an ecological conciousness, explored her roots in Buddhism. She eventually found a spiritual centre where the artist, the person, the nature lover, the rock-collector, the minute observer of tree bark, the connoiseur of haikus, the wine aficionado, or the soul yearning to be its true self — are a fulfilled whole. The journey continues.
Her abstract paintings express these earthy yet transcendental desires. This is an artist who forgets to eat when lost in the final stages of her artwork. Sunshine and trees, earth and gold, memory and mutating, poetry and the self, geology and love… all can be found here in her astonishing use of colour, material, and very finely honed technique.
Anki’s paintings are a lifetime of lived and profoundly felt philosophy. One of India’s foremost art critics, Dr. Geeti Sen has said that her technique and painting “combines chemistry, magic and philosophy”.