Reflections On 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.
Attention Span
‘Attention Span’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Out of Darkness collection. Balance tips toward awe and ambiguity.
Swan Fight: Graceful Fusion of Movement
‘Swan Fight’ is plunging through celadon and smoke, drawn from the Organic Movement collection. A canvas holding both stillness and storm.
Plankton in Sunlight Ocean: Abstract Oil Painting
‘Plankton in Sun Light Ocean’ is humming with obsidian and gold, drawn from the Organic Movement collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Plankton in Dark Ocean: A Surrender to Intuition
‘Plankton in Dark Ocean’ is drenched in stormy indigo and sunlit ochre, drawn from the Organic Movement collection. Here, wonder dissolves into the seen and unseen.
Emerging from the Shadow: A Dance Between Light and Weight
‘Emerging from Shadow’ is cerulean meets bone-dry sienna, drawn from the Organic Movement collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Emerging from the Darkness: A Shimmer Toward Becoming
‘Emerging from Darkness’ is a thrum of maroon and teal, drawn from the Organic Movement collection. Forms collapse into reverie and return.
Eating Black Square: Tension, Devotion, and Disintegration
‘Eating Black Square’ is drenched in stormy indigo and sunlit ochre, drawn from the Organic Movement collection. Not an image — but an encounter.
Emergence from Dark Chaos
‘Dark Chaos’ is humming with obsidian and gold, drawn from the Organic Movement collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Model 2 Abstraction
‘Model 2 Abstraction’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Hand-painted Photography collection. Each layer pulses with breath and restraint.
Model 1 (Abstraction): Layers of Identity and Transformation
‘Model 1 Abstraction’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Hand-painted Photography collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Vision in Space
‘Vision in Space’ is a thrum of maroon and teal, drawn from the Greyscale collection. Each layer pulses with breath and restraint.
Mapping the Abstract Cosmos
‘Cosmos’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Greyscale collection. Every mark a memory half-remembered.
Antelope Canyon
‘Antelope Canyon’ is a thrum of maroon and teal, drawn from the Greyscale collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Unraveling: A Diptych Meditation in Black & White
‘Unraveling (Diptych)’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Greyscale collection. Lines that whisper across thresholds of knowing.
Politics: A Visual Dialogue Between Structure and Disruption
‘Politics 2024 (Diptych)’ is humming with obsidian and gold, drawn from the Greyscale collection. Forms collapse into reverie and return.
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.
Life is 3 Dimensional
‘Life is 3 Dimensional’ is humming with obsidian and gold, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Blurry Landscape
‘Blurry Landscape’ is molten lines in arctic white, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Structure flickers into emotion and back again.
Abstract Landscape
‘Abstract Landscape’ is a quiet echo of saffron and slate, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. Every mark a memory half-remembered.
Pink Tornado
‘Pink Tornado’ is crimson tension woven into silence, drawn from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection. A canvas holding both stillness and storm.