ARTIST’S STATEMENT
A work of art lives. It comes to life with the creative expression
of
the artist and it continues to live through the appreciation
of its viewers.
With every brush stroke I want to ‘be’ with the
piece, to be aware – of my
breath, of my hand, arm body, and
of the piece, of the change that one stroke
has made. Wha
gets revealed before me is the gradual coming to life of a flat
surface. The movement, the colour, the garden of delights
slowly presents
itself.
I tend to paint art that is to be lived with, to be enjoyed,
rather
than to be thought about.
BIOGRAPHY
Sanatan is mainly a self-taught artist, although did
some art
training in his youth with Gordon McAuslan and work-shopped
in the
early 1990s with James Guppy. His unique style still
manages to embrace many
diverse artistic influences,
although his subjects have often come from Tantra
and his
own meditation.
Until recently his work was almost exclusively done on
a
geometric grid of diamond shapes. Some of his more recent
works show the
emergence of work without the grid. These
works still keep the diamond-shaped
brush strokes, but in a
very loose form, often in a variety of brush sizes and
heavy
glaze overlays.
Sanatan has won several awards, including a major award
at
the Tweed Valley Art Prize. He paints largely in the studio
and occasionally
in situ. He and his wife, Yoga, have a studio
on the Gold Coast.
EXHIBITIONS
Tosari Gallery, Toowoomba, 2009
Graydon Gallery, Brisbane, 2009
Baboa Gallery, Brisbane, 2009
Baboa Gallery, Brisbane, 2008
Mullumbimby Art Gallery 1995
Tweed Valley Art Prize, 1994
North Coast Art Show, 1994
Ormiston Art Prize, 1994
Mullumbimby Art Gallery, 1994
Redcliff Art Society Prize, 1994
Southern Cross Art Prize, 1993
Mullumbimby Art Gallery, 1993
Tweed Valley Art Prize, 1993
Byron Shire Regional Gallery (The Epicentre ‘Big Space’) 1993
North Coast Art Show, 1993
Eaglehawk Gallery, 1993
Southern Cross Art Prize, 1992
Mullumbimby Art Gallery, 1992
Tweed Valley Art Prize, 1992
Eaglehawk Gallery, 1992
North Coast Art Show, 1992
Eaglehawk Gallery, Glebe, 1991
AWARDS
Warwick Art Prize, (finalist), QLD, 2009
Border Art Prize (finalist), QLD, 2009
Redcliff Art Society, portrait prize (winner-acquisitive), QLD, 1994
Science Art Research Centre Award (inaugural winner), NSW, 1993
Southern Cross Art Award, watercolour (winner), NSW, 1992
Tweed Valley Art Prize (winner of major award), NSW, 1992
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Design and
implementation of tea-tree maze and sculpture
exhibition space, Thursday
Plantation, Ballina, NSW (1993-4).
COLLECTIONS
Redcliff Art Society collection, QLD
Ocean Shores Community Centre, NSW