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.
Summer Lilies
‘Summer Lilies’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Red Rag in Turbulent Form
‘Red Rag’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Each layer pulses with breath and restraint.
Passion Unleashed
‘Passion Unleashed’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Each layer pulses with breath and restraint.
My Planet in Abstraction
‘My Planet’ is a thrum of maroon and teal, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Mellow Dream
‘Ecstatic Dance’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Here, wonder dissolves into the seen and unseen.
Ecstatic Dance
‘Ecstatic Dance’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Here, wonder dissolves into the seen and unseen.
Colored Fireballs
‘Colored Fireballs’ is a quiet echo of saffron and slate, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Beyond the Frame
‘Beyond the Frame’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Rhythm and Flow of Waves
‘Waves’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Large Space Version 3
‘Large Space Version 3’ is dappled coral flickers across shadowed green, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Fabric Over Stars
‘Fabric Over Stars’ is dappled coral flickers across shadowed green, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Movement of the Blue Ocean
‘Blue Ocean’ is a thrum of maroon and teal, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Forms collapse into reverie and return.
Ushering a New Form
‘Ushering’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. A canvas holding both stillness and storm.
Blue Nugget
‘Blue Nugget’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Quilt In Red
‘Quilt in Red’ is humming with obsidian and gold, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Movement to Nowhere
‘Movement to Nowhere’ is a quiet echo of saffron and slate, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Every mark a memory half-remembered.
Jaisalmer Royal Wedding
‘Jaisalmer Royal Wedding’ is drenched in stormy indigo and sunlit ochre, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Forms collapse into reverie and return.
Portal Vision: Stargate
‘Stargate’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. A canvas holding both stillness and storm.
Biosphere in Flux
‘Biosphere’ is a quiet echo of saffron and slate, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Here, wonder dissolves into the seen and unseen.
