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.
Patchwork Sky: Mapping Color in Motion
In Patchwork Sky, color and structure converge. Floating squares, dashes, and curves build a rhythmic, painterly map — part geometry, part imagination.
River Through Desert: Where Geometry Meets Wild Color
In River Through Desert, geometric blocks collide with unruly, painted lines — a vibrant diptych where order meets motion and a river cuts through stillness.
Ganesh in the Abstract
‘Ganesh in the Abstract’ is dappled coral flickers across shadowed green, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. A canvas holding both stillness and storm.
Silver Frame
‘Silver Frame’ is drenched in stormy indigo and sunlit ochre, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Monster Dream
‘Monster Dream’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Life Scratches
‘Life Scratches’ is humming with obsidian and gold, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Its rhythm stirs the unsaid.
Circle Barbed Wire
‘Circle Barbed Wire’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Each layer pulses with breath and restraint.
Abstraction of Yellow (Not)
‘Abstraction of Yellow (Not)’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Not an image — but an encounter.
Square Earth
‘Square Earth’ is dappled coral flickers across shadowed green, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Forms collapse into reverie and return.
Abstraction 2
‘Abstraction 2’ is a drift of moss and ember, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Each layer pulses with breath and restraint.
Blue Color Field
‘Blue Color Field’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Red & More: Tensions of Hue
‘Red & More’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Every mark a memory half-remembered.
Abstraction 1
‘Abstraction 1’ is a drift of moss and ember, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Every mark a memory half-remembered.
Symbolic Form of Ganesh
‘Ganesh’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Energy Spiral: Shiva Unbound
‘Shiva’ is a quiet echo of saffron and slate, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. A canvas holding both stillness and storm.
Window with Glazed Glass
‘Window with Glazed Glass’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Not an image — but an encounter.
Blue Lagoon
‘Blue Lagoon’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Love Factory
‘Love Factory’ is a drift of moss and ember, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Every mark a memory half-remembered.
Into the Blackhole
‘Blackhole’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Geometric Splendor collection. Here, wonder dissolves into the seen and unseen.