This Artist in Me workshop invites participants to explore how abstract forms can come together to create meaning, structure, and emotional resonance. Drawing on Tyeb Mehta's practice, the session reflects on how tension, rhythm, and balance can be constructed through minimal yet deliberate visual elements.

Led by artist Ruchika Wason Singh, the workshop focuses on working with marks, lines, dots, and spatial forms as the building blocks of visual language. Participants will explore how seemingly simple elements can evolve into larger, more complex compositions, such as landscapes, figures, or imagined environments. Through guided exercises, they will experiment with colour, repetition and placement to understand how forms interact, overlap, and create rhythm across the surface.

The process emphasises the relationship between tension and balance, where multiple elements coexist within a composition. Much like Tyeb Mehta’s work, in which controlled structures hold emotional intensity, participants will explore how visual harmony can emerge through careful arrangement, contrast and restraint.

Designed for adults, this workshop encourages focused observation, experimentation and self-expression. It offers a space to engage with abstraction as both a visual and conceptual practice, allowing participants to develop their own language of form, rhythm and balance.

Artist Bio

Ruchika Wason Singh is a visual artist, art educator and independent researcher based in Delhi. She holds degrees in B.F.A., Painting (1997) and M.F.A., Painting, (1999) from College of Art, New Delhi. In 2008 she was awareded Ph.D from the University of Delhi, supported by the U.G.C. Junior Research Fellowship (2001-2006). She has had five solo exhibitions in India, Vietnam and Germany. Ruchika has participated extensively in international projects, including India Week Hamburg 2023 and Art Stage Osaka 2023. She has received grants for projects from AHRC (UK) and University of Brighton (UK) and Behörde für Kultur und Medien, Hamburg (Germany), amongst others. Ruchika has received awards fromAlFACS, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath and College of Art,New Delhi. She has taught at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, and is a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, Sonipat.

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TYEB MEHTA Bearing Weight (with the lightness of being).