On Cover
Costel Iarca
Visionary Contemporary Artist
“There is no bottom line in art. A painting is always incomplete, and that incompleteness fascinates me.”
Cover Story
In the world of contemporary art, the pursuit of originality often defines the path of a true artist. For Romanian born painter Costel Iarca, art has always been more than technique or visual expression. It is a lifelong journey of discovery, faith, and emotional reflection. With more than forty five years devoted to painting, Iarca continues to explore new artistic languages that transform human experience into vibrant visual narratives.
Samruddha Purekar
In a world increasingly dominated by algorithmic imagery and digital saturation, Samruddha Purekar stands as a guardian of something rare: the human hand’s ability to translate presence into permanence. Working under the name Samruddhartè, she has spent years refining a practice that refuses the dramatic in favor of the profound, choosing restraint over spectacle, and depth over immediacy.
Synoj Sivan
The influence that would most profoundly shape his technical approach came from an unlikely quarter: French Academic Realism. The tradition that produced artists capable of rendering skin, fabric, and light with an almost photographic precision gave Synoj the technical vocabulary to pursue his true subject matter, the gods, mythological figures, and everyday people of India, with a lifelike quality that invites not just observation but contemplation. What makes his work distinctive is not simply its technical accomplishment but the way it puts that accomplishment entirely in service of cultural meaning.