Vandana Krishna is a self-taught artist based in Mumbai. With her roots in Delhi and Punjab, she has lived and worked in various parts of Maharashtra. She has been painting for the last fifteen years, finding the time to pick up her brush amidst the hectic schedule of a government job. Always interested in the arts, she is deeply influenced by the works of masters and the Impressionists like Van Gogh, Monet, Vermeer, Matisse, Klimt, Pollock, Indian masters like Hussain, Souza, Sher-Gill, Gaitonde.

Vandana Krishna is fascinated by works that display bold strokes as well as works rendered with a subtle finesse, from form to abstract and semi abstract works. She mostly works with figures in a context which symbolizes that which is beyond the stated; form with a deeper meaning, often bordering between symbolism and surrealism.She believes that the purest form of art would be abstraction, where the executing hand and the controlling mind is free from the constraints of the physical world of real, solid form. The journey towards the ultimate freedom: abstraction, is what this artist aspires to.

Meanwhile, Vandana focuses her work on day-to-day subjects which strike a chord with the common man. These resonate with her daily experiences of joy, stress and anxiety, and the effort to escape the mundane with a dash of hope and humour.

Her current works aim to transport the self to a place of fantasy, hope and cheer even amidst the daily grind and experience of long waits, of getting caught up in traffic or queues, or living in the urban jungle with its sensory overload. There is beauty to be found even in the ordinary. Vandana’s works ask you to take a breath, and allow yourself to experience your highest escapist fantasy. If you have fears, let those fears be conquered and demolished. Her works symbolize reaching for the heights, and also plunging into the depths of one’s being into a place of quiet and stillness, spiritually, symbolically and perhaps even physically! The works try to portray that freedom of the human spirit can overcome all odds.

Vandana’s works can be viewed as a permanent collection at Si Bambai, Kala Ghoda. She was also commissioned to create a work by UNICEF on the theme of ‘Mother and Child’.