Mixed Media on Canvas | Epoxy-Coated Acrylic Paintings by Ritu Raj

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” — René Magritte

My journey into mixed media on canvas with epoxy-coated acrylics began unexpectedly. During a gallery visit, I encountered paintings that shimmered with an inner light, their surfaces alive with gloss and depth. It felt as though each canvas breathed—speaking not just through color and form but through luminous presence.

Adding epoxy resin over acrylic transforms a painting into something dimensional and immersive. Light dances across the resin-coated surface, pulling viewers into layered compositions where every swirl and saturation of color gains clarity and weight. What begins as paint becomes presence—an object of reflection and radiance.

Working with epoxy is both challenging and revelatory. Resin has its own will; it moves, shifts, and reacts, demanding technical precision and patient timing. Each pour becomes a negotiation between intention and chance. Yet within this uncertainty, the most alive works emerge—pieces that continue to evolve as light and angle change.

These paintings are collaborations: between artist and material, vision and surprise. Each is more than a finished image; it is a document of transformation, a visual echo of the making process itself. As a contemporary abstract artist, I return to this medium again and again, drawn by its mystery and its power to hold presence in layered, luminous form.