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.
Still Life at Night
‘Still Life at Night’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Forms collapse into reverie and return.
Rewriting Visual Language
‘Rewriting’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Here, wonder dissolves into the seen and unseen.
Flower Vase
‘Flower Vase’ is a drift of moss and ember, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Not an image — but an encounter.
Eye in the Sky
‘Eye in the Sky’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Not an image — but an encounter.
Desert Landscape
‘Desert Landscape’ is drenched in stormy indigo and sunlit ochre, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Here, wonder dissolves into the seen and unseen.
Cosmos Interstellar
‘Cosmos Interstellar’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Attention Span
‘Attention Span’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Silver Landscape
‘Silver Landscape’ is a drift of moss and ember, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Forms collapse into reverie and return.
Rothko Reimagined
‘Rothko Reimagined’ is a drift of moss and ember, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Golden Plot
‘Golden Plot’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Golden Moment
‘Golden Moment’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Tulip Field
‘Tulip Field’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Bent Pin in Motion
‘Bent Pin’ is humming with obsidian and gold, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Every mark a memory half-remembered.
Silver Sunrise
‘Silver Sunrise’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Not an image — but an encounter.
Scratched Black Mirror
‘Scratched Black Mirror’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Black Square
‘Black Square’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Black Heart: Quiet Intensity in Minimal Form
‘Black Heart’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.