About Me
Kiran Chugani
Kiran Chugani is an abstract expressionist painter of Indian origin, born and raised in Casablanca , Morocco. She currently lives in France, where she divides her time between Paris and the region of St. Malo in Brittany. Over the past two decades, she has also lived in the US , the UK, Switzerland, and India where she has received academic training and certifications in studio art, jewelry design, social work, energy healing, and the culinary sciences.
Guided and inspired by her multidisciplinary academic background and her work as an energy healer, her art explores the emotional and spiritual aspects of human nature. As a painter and a therapist, her life is a dance between the two worlds of art (color and vibration) and healing (frequencies). Western and Eastern philosophy meet on her canvas where in my limited space, she seeks to create a world where everything is reduced to its simplest form of what Plato calls truth, beauty and goodness and what the Vedanta philosophy refers to as Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.
Kiran seeks, in her paintings, to illuminate the emotional and spiritual aspects of human existence through the use of materials such as gold leaf, raffia and sand. She plays with color, texture, simple brushstrokes to create works that evoke a sense of calmness, and meditative pause. What excites her most in the course of creating her works is the act of discovering the depth and intricacies of human emotions and the challenge of evoking them through visuality.
Kiran has studied painting in Washington DC with renowned local artists like John Figura, Tom Nakashima, and Mary Frank. Her work has been included in art shows and exhibits in Lausanne (Switzerland), Florence (Italy), Washington DC, New York (USA), Casablanca and Tangier (Morocco), Mumbai and Pune (India). It has also been showcased in the “Mid-Atlantic Marvels” exhibit in Fairfax, Virginia, auctioned in New York for Manavi, an NGO for South Asian battered women, and showcased at an event for Amis des Ecoles, an NGO dedicated to improving the future of Moroccan children in rural regions through education.
Kiran’s paintings have been acquired by collectors in Morocco, Spain, Australia, Japan, India, UK, US, Ghana, Dubai. Her current work explores how to achieve an illusion of expansion and infinity on a limited canvas. Using repetition in brushstrokes or forms and color fields as tools to explore expansion in a meditative and reduced form, she digs deep to her core to express the vibrational strength needed to remain present and grounded, sometimes resembling a vortex and other times blocks of color evoking emotions and a need to take a deep breath. She is currently accepting custom commissions. A limited number of her works are also available for purchase via her Instagram @eat.paint.love