Meera Palia
Meera Palia has always been attracted to spontaneity and improvisation in art forms and has felt a strong need to create abstract art that feels ‘free’ and made ‘in the moment’. Meera’s paintings are therefore unplanned, they evolve out of the colours, textures, marks and moods that emerge throughout the process and whatever emotions or thoughts she is carrying with her at that specific time. Palia aiming for the painting equivalent of a jazz jam or a flamenco improvisation rather than a polished composition/choreographed act. She loves the rhythmic, gestural, physical act of painting, when it almost as if her hand is freestyle dancing. Meera will often paint to music, trying to bring the energy of an interesting beat into her work. She particularly like to experiment with building up and scratching away different layers of paint to reveal some of those underneath. Painting feels like an enquiry, a dialogue with the unknown. Sometimes more recognisable ‘forms’ such as figures or landscapes start to emerge. Sometimes they do not. It is the sense of the unexpected and endless possibilities for the re-invention of a painting that she finds so compelling.
Most of Meera’s work is done with acrylics and they allows her to work quickly. However, she also takes a mixed media approach and will also incorporate paper or material collage and oil crayon scribblings into her work. The artist will scratch surfaces with the ends of brushes and palette knives as well as using fast expressive brushstrokes. Inspired by abstract expressionist painters such as Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner, Meera thrives on making marks that feel 'alive', intuitive and authentic.
See Meera’s work below!
