Experiencing Arjuna's work is like taking a walk into a territory where one discovers elements, emotions and thoughts of the artist. Imagery that is culled from his conscious and subconscious mind manifest on the canvas teasing both the viewer's eye and the mind to engage with them. The central figure of the Lord Buddha is key to the composition as his avatars manifests in the centre of the composition. Arjun's interpretation reinvents the Buddhist Thanka style adapting it to oil on canvas and bringing to it a modernist methodology.

However, where the magic realism really happens is in the surrounding dreamscape around the Lord Buddha, the wild birds and beasts, the intoxicating flowers that drip colour in a maddening palette, and the evocation of the cosmos through the expressionstic swirls and motifs that create a sense of energy and vivacity around the canvas drawing you in to the reverie.

Arjuna has many years of training in art especially in classical drawing and painting as well as in martial arts, mediation and music-- both classical as well as contemporary. All these aspects are a way of life that enrich his journey as an artist.

They complete his creative cycle and bring to his canvases that sense of completion and fulfilment that may be then further derived from his work.

Georgina Maddox, Critic-Curator

New Delhi, January 2023