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Art inspiration by Karan Nawab

For 25-year-old Karan Nawab, art is extremely personal and perceptual, while design is rational and is meant to please everyone. The self taught artist and designer wants to keep on creating sculptures and experiment with different forms of art and materials. Karan talks about his journey so far... Early Days

It all started in college when my dream to start something of my own pulled me to customise wooden coasters. Yes, I learned the designing process through YouTube tutorials and after some time I got an idea to design wooden mobile covers with customised designs engraved on it. It was during that phase when I tumbled upon Mandala art and was quite fascinated by it. I started researching the art form, and eventually started designing my own Mandala designs. My dream to design decor products started coming true as my hands were completely into sculptures and wall arts by now.

USP

Fusion of Mandala art along with human emotions, architecture, mythological characters, thoughts. Each and every form is custom designed and is not replicated in any other wall art. Also a limited number of pieces are replicated of a particular design. In some of the artworks, the different layers are hand painted in a significant colour scheme and then placed together. It easily takes a month to create each design.

Exciting and Challenging

I love choosing different subject and fusing Mandala art along with it. My design should reflect the subject and should be meaningful. However there have been times when the art looks aesthetically pleasing but it doesn’t conveying any emotion or message. Therefore the challenge is to interpret the story in layers.

Inspirations

I take inspirations from Islamic architecture, Persian and Mandala art. All these are very unique form of art and their intricacy reflects in my work too.