Jenny Bhatt

Exhibition: Color Therapy

COLOUR YOUR CHAKRA!


After months of research on colours and with a knowledge of the body’s charkas, artist Jenny Bhatt finds a connection between art and spirituality, says Nicole Dastur.

Experimentation is what inspires the artist in her. And of course, colours. “I’ve always been a colourist,” claims Jenny Bhatt, whose latest exhibition, Colour Therapy, goes beyond art. “After 10 years of painting, I wanted there to be a bigger purpose to my work; I wanted it to go beyond expression.” And Color Therapy attempts to find a relation between the mind, the body and colours. Familiar with the practice of reiki and with sufficient knowledge of the body’s charkas, Jenny decided to connect the body’s inner realm with the healing properties of colours. After adequate research on visual perception, colour cognition and memory, Jenny’s tenth solo show – a melange of vibrant colours – is as therapeutic as it is artistic. “There is one predominant colour in every painting and every colour is related to one chakra. Indigo, for instance signifies the third eye chakra, which is the intuitive center, while red touches the passion chakra. When the vibration of a colour influences the vibration of a chakra, it balances that chakra, radiating positive energy, besides resulting in the well-being of the organs and tissues connected to that chakra,” explains Jenny, adding that since the eye is the sense that is closest to the mind, perception plays an integral part in defining our reality.
While her colour-sensitive works are mostly natural forms – “Nature exists to express itself, and that fact subliminally reminds us that we are part of a bigger natural reality” – her themes are grounded in urban reality. “My work is concerned with the urban mind, especially, the urban Indian feminine identity,” says Jenny, who believes in a “whole brain approach” – rather than an intuitive one – to art, which she adds, should be “Creative as well as pragmatic.” Which is why she scripts verses that go hand-in-hand with her creations: “What my paintings say in colour and form, the poems translate into words,” concludes Jenny.