About The Painting : Utpala Tsal – Manifesting Energy
Utpala Tsal brings together two ideas that are important to this painting. Utpala refers to the blue lotus, while tsal is a Dzogchen term for dynamic, manifesting energy, the potential or power through which something expresses itself.
For me, making art is exactly that: a way of manifesting and expressing what is moving through me. The blue lotus is the starting point, but the painting is really about energy, vibration and movement. Thousands of individually painted lines come together to create a field that appears to radiate from the centre and move continuously across the surface.
I think of Utpala Tsal as a blue lotus in vibration.
Utpala Tsal, 2026. Acrylics on canvas. 90 cms diameter.
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Materials
The artist uses acrylic markers to hand-paint each artwork. Acid-free gesso is applied to the canvas before she begins the painting. Some paintings have pencil sketches on top of which the synthetic polymer paint is layered. Each painting is photographed prior to the application of varnish. Several coats of high-gloss liquid, UV resistant, museum-grade, acid-free, non-yellowing varnish is applied to the painting, and it is finished with several layers of permanent matte varnish spray, similar in grade to the liquid varnish.
About The Series
The growing discourse on gender, sexuality and identity, is what brought forth this series for the artist. While the online world can seen as polarizing and swinging between the two extremes of centuries-old misogyny and newly-minted misandry, real people in real life continue to collaborate and build lives of magical energy. After posting a couple of short videos on her Instagram page, and after reading through and responding to thousands of comments, the artist feels like the fervor has never been this in-her-face. She feels the vibrations from women who seem to be coming into their own, developing relationships with their divine and sacred selves, choosing to get to know themselves better and unlearning the conditioning of needing a man in their lives. At the same time, men seem to be coming into their own as well. Breaking free from patriarchal strong holds, exploring their spirituality and honoring the feminine within their masculine.
The lived experiences of both the feminine and the masculine are colliding. And not always in beautiful ways. Regardless, there’s an energy and a vibration around the artist that she has not experienced before in her life.
She aims to bring forth these vibrations in her paintings for this series.
The title of the series has not been worked out yet.
Utpala Tsal brings the idea of vibration in the series inward. While the series looks at the energies and tensions surrounding the changing relationship between the feminine and masculine, this painting is less about the collision between those energies and more about their manifestation within the self.
The blue lotus becomes a point of emergence, with colour and line radiating outward from its centre. For me, Utpala Tsal is about recognising that energy, allowing it to move through me, and giving it form.
About The Artist
Naina is a contemporary artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. In India, she is represented by The Art Qurious and Ochre Art, which are both Art Galleries based in New Delhi.
Naina had her first gallery exhibition in August 2024. Her first ever art exhibit was in 2020.
You are also able to follow the journey of her paintings on her Instagram Reels page.
To browse through Naina’s art, please see the Khaosphilos section on this website.
Photographs in the Garden
The first painting in this series is titled “We Ride At Dawn” and you can read more about it here and purchase it from my online store by clicking below. (Shipping within Adelaide is free, please email me on [email protected]).
For art acquisition enquiries in India, please email Sangita Rajani of The Art Qurious on [email protected] and for art commission enquiries or gallery representation in Australia, please reach out to me on [email protected] or text on +61429048917
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System Of Becoming, 2025. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 90 cms diameter
We Ride At Dawn, 2025. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 90 cms diameter
