Ashima Sehgal

Lives and works in New Delhi, Delhi, India

Artist statement

What language does silence speak when it isn’t emptiness but a universe unfolding quietly inside? I am Ashima Dhir Sehgal, and my art is born in that fertile pause—the stoic silence that holds a world of untold stories, where absence blooms into presence, and stillness hums with unspoken life. Silence is not a retreat but a reckoning. It is the weight of everything felt but unvoiced—a pulse beneath the surface that carries strength in its restraint, a kind of knowing that asks for no witness. My figures emerge from this quiet crucible, carved in the shadowed folds of breath and bone, their eyes not seeking, but seeing deeply, as if holding a conversation only the soul can understand. I’m a lawyer by training, but painting has become something I can’t ignore—something deeper, louder than reason. It didn’t ask for permission to enter my life; it just showed up, demanding space, demanding release. Abstract art found me when I didn’t even know I was searching for it. Now, when I paint, it’s not about rules or outcomes. It’s about energy. Emotion. Movement. Color. It’s raw and instinctive, and it pours out of me like it’s been waiting for years. I’ve spent so much time in a world of structure and logic—but this, this is freedom. This is feeling. This is mine. Whether I’m filled with joy or weighed down by something I can’t name, I turn to the canvas. I don’t need a plan. I don’t need to understand it. I just need to feel it. And let it out. Painting is my escape and my...

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