Reflection on Paintings

Collection of Abstractions

Abstraction of Self: Reflections on Individual Paintings

Exploring Inspiration, Process, and the Artists Who Shape My Vision

“I create to shift how we see and feel through abstraction—opening space for reflection, connection, and quiet transformation. Change begins not with certainty, but with listening.” - Ritu Raj | Abstract Artist

Abstractions of Self is a living journal of my painting practice—where each post unravels the hidden layers behind a single work. These reflections explore how abstraction emerges not just from paint and gesture, but from memory, mood, and the invisible threads of influence. Here, I share the intuitive process that unfolds on the canvas, and connect each piece to the broader world of contemporary abstract art—honoring the artists, ideas, and philosophies that inspire and shape my creative journey. This is a space to look beneath the surface, to understand what cannot be explained in the work alone, and to discover how each painting becomes both a question and an answer.

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Pulse of the Indigo Prism: A 24x24 Inch Thread Painting in the Organic Movement Series

Pulse of the Indigo Prism (24x24 in.) embodies the Organic Movement’s essence—color, rhythm, and gesture flowing as one. Using a thread painting technique, Ritu Raj channels motion into stillness, weaving deep indigo and vibrant crimson into a prism of energy that vibrates with emotional resonance.

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Radiant Feather on a Red Horizon: Exploring Motion, Color, and Presence in the Organic Movement

Radiant Feather on a Red Horizon embodies the Organic Movement’s signature vitality—color, motion, and form merging into a visual language of presence. Painted in oil on canvas, this 24 x 24 inch work uses thread-like brushwork to create both turbulence and balance, drawing viewers into its layered depths.

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Organic Drift Through Luminous Green: A 24-Inch Thread Painting in the Organic Movement Collection

Organic Drift Through Luminous Green embodies the energy of growth and renewal. A 24-inch square canvas, this thread painting from the Organic Movement collection invites viewers to experience the quiet pulse of nature through color, form, and motion.

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Chromatic Apex in Motion: Thread Painting as a Living Form in the Organic Movement Collection

Chromatic Apex in Motion is a 36x36 inch oil on canvas that embodies the essence of Ritu Raj’s Organic Movement Collection. Using his distinctive thread painting method, Raj creates a sweeping composition where radiant reds, yellows, and blues collide in rhythmic flow. This work captures the tension between eruption and balance, evoking both geological force and the soaring presence of a peak at its summit.

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Cascade of Frosted Motion: Thread Painting and the Fluid Energy of the Organic Movement

In Cascade of Frosted Motion, Ritu Raj captures the suspended energy of water and air as if frozen mid-gesture. This large-scale thread painting from the Organic Movement series is a meditation on flow, texture, and the way abstraction can embody natural rhythms without representation.

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Fluid Heartbeat of Magenta and Sky: An Abstract Meditation on Organic Movement Through Thread Painting

Fluid Heartbeat of Magenta and Sky (36x36 inches) embodies the rhythm of organic movement. Using his unique thread painting technique, Ritu Raj brings magenta, blue, and white into a dynamic dialogue of pulse and calm. A meditation on color, motion, and presence, the painting invites viewers into the flow of breath and being.

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Electric Bloom on Obsidian: A Luminous Dialogue Between Motion and Stillness

Electric Bloom on Obsidian captures the tension between kinetic energy and suspended quietude. Through sweeping gestures in yellow, white, and violet over a deep umber ground, Ritu Raj transforms oil paint into a living form that vibrates between bloom and current.

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Crimson Vortex of Motion – A Fiery Exploration in the Organic Movement Collection

In Crimson Vortex of Motion, Ritu Raj transforms the canvas into a swirling dance of heat and momentum. This 2.5×2.5 ft oil on canvas, part of his Organic Movement Collection, invites viewers into the heart of abstraction—where bold motion meets visceral color.

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Silent Veil of Arctic Current – Organic Movement in Blue

Part of Ritu Raj’s Organic Movement collection, Silent Veil of Arctic Current captures the poetic quiet of glacial waters in motion. Through sweeping gestures and layered depth, the painting invites viewers to inhabit a space where nature’s rhythms merge with meditative stillness.

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Skybound Strokes in Motion: The Poetry of Blue in the Organic Movement Collection

Skybound Strokes in Motion carries the viewer into a realm where movement and stillness coexist. Part of Ritu Raj’s Organic Movement Collection, this 3x3 ft oil on canvas channels the rhythm of ocean waves and the sweep of windborne wings, inviting an immersive emotional experience.

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Oceanic Ascent — Fluid Motion in the Organic Movement Collection

Oceanic Ascent, a 3×3 ft oil on canvas by Ritu Raj, captures the meditative rise of water and air through delicate tonal transitions. As part of the Organic Movement Collection, it reflects a synthesis of natural motion, painterly precision, and contemporary abstraction.

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Tides of Purple Reverie: A Vivid Journey Through the Organic Movement

In Tides of Purple Reverie, Ritu Raj transforms oil on canvas into a living field of motion—deep violet arcs dance across an electrified green expanse. As part of the Organic Movement Collection, the work invites viewers to feel rather than decode, channeling both personal emotion and universal rhythms.

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Tangled Pulse of a Shattered World: A Monument to Disruption, Resilience, and Rebirth

Tension and tenderness erupt across a nine-foot field in Tangled Pulse of a Shattered World. In this sweeping diptych, Ritu Raj uses thread and retarded acrylics to choreograph emotional turbulence into radiant, rhythmic fragments—offering not just commentary, but catharsis.

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