I grew up in India and learned to paint in Delhi, under Rameshwar Broota and Satish Sharma. Later I spent a few years in Canada. I paint people in rooms: bars, bedrooms, a pool at night, a laptop open on a kitchen table.
The bodies do not sit still. A hand runs too far across a table, a face slides toward a screen, someone comes apart in the heat of an afternoon. It is closer to how people look to me when they think nobody is watching, half in the room and half somewhere on a phone.
I work in oil now, after years in acrylic, and worked out the rest on my own. The studio is paid for by other work, on purpose, so the paintings do not have to please anyone. The painters I keep going back to are Bacon, Auerbach and Dumas, less for how the pictures look than for how little they lie.