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Soumya Netrabile (b. 1966, Bangalore, India) does not think of herself as a landscape painter, nor of what she paints as landscapes. Instead, her works – though occasionally revealing glimpses of swirling, golden foliage, or the jewel-like oerings of a misty sea – take on the notes of lyrical abstraction, forged through a ritualistic and intuitive approach to artmaking.
Netrabile’s practice is one of interconnectedness: borne from the natural world, channelled through the body, and returned to the perceiving soul. In this sense, the artist is a poet of the canvas: each of her brushstrokes is a suggestion of something expansive and deeply personal, drawn from the crunch of a twig or the ostensibly impenetrable surface of a stone in the pocket. Indeed, the title of this show – suggesting an intimate and talismanic engagement with nature – originates from the artist’s collection of forest detritus on her daily walks.
It also refers to a poem by Pablo Neruda, ‘Oh Earth, Wait for Me’, in…
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Soumya Netrabile (b. 1966, Bangalore, India) does not think of herself as a landscape painter, nor of what she paints as landscapes. Instead, her works – though occasionally revealing glimpses of swirling, golden foliage, or the jewel-like oerings of a misty sea – take on the notes of lyrical abstraction, forged through a ritualistic and intuitive approach to artmaking.
Netrabile’s practice is one of interconnectedness: borne from the natural world, channelled through the body, and returned to the perceiving soul. In this sense, the artist is a poet of the canvas: each of her brushstrokes is a suggestion of something expansive and deeply personal, drawn from the crunch of a twig or the ostensibly impenetrable surface of a stone in the pocket. Indeed, the title of this show – suggesting an intimate and talismanic engagement with nature – originates from the artist’s collection of forest detritus on her daily walks.
It also refers to a poem by Pablo Neruda, ‘Oh Earth, Wait for Me’, in…






































