I, Vijaya Kalyan born in 1966,at Mumbai have done my art teachers Diploma & Diploma in Fine arts, Mumbai, India.

Art, in fact, has been my obsession from the childhood. Initially, I was an art teacher In the prestigious Bhabha atomic research center school, Mumbai. In 1991, after my marriage I went to Nairobi, Kenya. I had the privilege, therefore of touring many Parts of Africa. In addition, I also went to Europe and U.S.A. Nature unfolded her vast Canvas from tenderness to wilderness, from the uniformity to diversity, from green bounty to hard austerity and very many other landscapes. The culture of the people indifferent regions is another boon to me for reflection in my painting.

I started with figurative paintings gradually changing into semi-abstract & then to abstract paintings.

My paintings are about the beauty of colours, how the colours and light can create an upbeat and magical environment. It is highly personal and emotional endeavor.

I begin without a pre-planned drawing, with loose thin colours and shapes. Then I allow the texture and images to evolve and grow. As I paint the reaction to each colour and texture continuously building with purely non-representational manner, each painting achieves a visual balance and rhythm which in turn creates total harmony. I make the colours walk around the textured surface and let them have luxurious presence. Its fun to explore with colours and textures as within nature where the weather brings about the change in environment at the same time with different geographical back drop.

In the beginning the yellow & red colour were prominent in my paintings because I related them with the city under the sun Nairobi ,it's known as city under the sun, where I spent my 12 years. Kenya's landscape, serenity, beautiful purple jacaranda flowers that spreads across like a carpet on the drive-way, the rain & rainbow, Masai people are all the basis of my thoughts in the paintings.

In the past I only used vibrant colours but in last three years in my Mumbai, Studio. I revolted against vibrant colours, which I think had to do with the hot climatic condition of the planes and started using soft pastel colours. I still switch to warm colours sometimes. It is a very sincere effort of mine to unfold and explore the classical abstractionist's belief and the recovery of beauty as a sensuous source of affirmation.

I feel a great deal of my work has a sense of freshness, perhaps even purity, almost as if emanating from religious experience. Painting is a result of constructive achievement by the relationship of colours & forces. It takes courage to destroy a beautiful white area of the canvas; the tension of this daring appears as a significant subject in my paintings. Talking to each colours and the role it plays in achieving a visual balance involves a long process and takes a lot of thought which cannot be described in words.