RAMESH THORAT

3 1 1024x1024For Ramesh Thorat, art is not confined to the boundaries of a canvas; it is inseparable from the act of living itself. He perceives no division between life and artistic practice—the journey becomes the artwork, and existence turns into an ongoing creative process.

With decades of artistic experience, Ramesh’s work is bold, contemplative, and intentionally unsettling to the unaware mind. Rather than offering comfort, his paintings challenge habitual ways of seeing, urging the viewer to move beyond surface appearances into a state of mindful observation.

Painting, for Ramesh, is only one medium through which thought takes form. His practice extends beyond the studio, shaped by an attentiveness that treats everyday action as a site of art. As he reflects, “People assume that what drama goes on the stage is a form of art. But what if the stage is right here? It’s all an act; we all are a part of drama and hence, a form of art.” This worldview positions awareness itself as the highest artistic gesture.

Mindfulness, rooted in compassion, lies at the core of his practice. Each brushstroke, each decision, becomes an opportunity to cultivate presence. His works do not seek to explain; they invite attention—asking the viewer to slow down and engage with perception itself.

Through sustained inquiry and lived philosophy, Thorat continues to blur the line between artist and life. His practice transforms

ARTWORKS

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Roots in the Sky

Ink & Watercolor on paper

56.5 x 76.5 cm

paintings

Untitled

Acrylic on Canvas

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Roots in the sky

Ink & Watercolor on paper

63 x 94 cm

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Roots in the Sky

Acrylic on Canvas

10 x 5 ft

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Roots in the sky

Acrylic on Canvas

10 x 5 ft

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Roots in the Sky

Acrylic on Canvas

10 x 5 ft

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Roots in the Sky

Acrylic on Canvas

10 x 5 ft

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Roots in the sky

Acrylic on Canvas

10 x 5 ft

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Roots in the Sky

Acrylic on Canvas

10 x 5 ft

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Roots in the Sky

Acrylic on Canvas

30.5 x 30.5 cm

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Roots in the sky

Medium- Acrylic on canvas
Size- 10ft x 5ft

This work unfolds like a contemplative stage where the human psyche negotiates its boundaries with the infinite. The figures, poised between corporeal presence and symbolic essence, inhabit a realm that feels both intimate and metaphysical. Their gestures are hesitant, yearning, resistant, exposed—mirror the fragile human inclination to hold tightly to certainty while being irresistibly drawn toward what lies beyond it. The composition orchestrates a dynamic tension between illumination and shadow, rest and agitation, form and dissolution, inviting viewers to enter the silent drama of inner transformation.

At the heart of the work is a quietly commanding presence—a wise figure not preaching dogma, but embodying awareness. Around him, symbolic motifs emerge: the disciplined clarity of the checkerboard, animal forms evoking instinct and endurance, spectral silhouettes suggesting layered identities, and figures withdrawing into self-contained reverie. Together, they articulate the complex architecture of perception: how we construct views, inhabit them, defend them, and occasionally transcend them.

The painting resonates deeply with philosophical and contemplative traditions that question the authority of the ego and the limits of conditioned thought. Yet it is not an illustration of doctrine; it is an experiential image. What the artist, Ramesh Thorat, offers here is not an answer but an encounter to a space where doubt, longing, vulnerability, and awakening coexist. In this richly choreographed visual meditation, the viewer is gently confronted with a question that is at once ancient and urgently contemporary: What binds us to the comfort of our fixed perspectives, and what might it mean to let the deeper, limitless sky within us speak?