Richa Vora

About the artist

Instagram: @richcompose 

Website: www.richavora.com

Richa Vora’s colourful memoryscapes are the answers to a reoccurring question – ‘‘What makes us?’’ 

This is a question that pervades Vora’s paintings as she records and illustrates her memories of different times and places in her life as layers within them. 

Vora digs deeply into her own recollections and reminiscences and use this to produce an archive of intersecting memoryscapes.

Each layered painting blends people with incidents from my journey, connecting them to her present. One can walk into these scapes and observe my imaginative world experiencing the blend of different times, atmospheres, textures, tastes, patterns and forms. This cohesion, confluence, or attachment and detachment is a real mystery to Vora. One the artist can only untangle through painting.

The images deconstruct the question – What makes us? – by inviting the viewer to consider whether it is where they live, where they feel most whole, where they can connect with loved ones, or where they can rekindle memories. Vora believes whether we know it or not, our lives change with political and personal influences.

Because we share a common humanity, we can find similarities in our experiences even when coming from dramatically different places. Hence, Vora’s aim in these paintings is to speak a universal abstract language with the alliance of recognisable realism bringing organic unity to the narratives.

The artworks are layered with Vora’s varied experiences from the natural world, geometry, classical music, symbols and folklores.

Please walk inside with the enthusiasm of a little seeker.

Richa Vora holds a Foundation Portraiture Degree from the Art Academy London.