Smeet K. Gusani will be painting live at One Sky, and will be available to discuss his work, his process, and his inspiration. Another artist will be joining him, TBA. Come and meet Smeet and witness him creating in person! Smeet Kailash Gusani is best known for his bold portrait and scape paintings which are full to the brim with life and emotion. His medium of choice is acrylic paints, which he successively layers over a wood or cloth primed canvas. He is currently experimenting with resin and acrylic sheets in synergy with his acrylic painting skill. “My work has always been about trying to capture the essence of the selected subject“ he has said. “I love the raw and vivid movement that thick layered paint adds to the piece imbibing it with its own unique personality.” With its emphasis on bold colour, brushwork and a quick fast-paced technique coupled with the intent to convey a specific mood to the viewer, his work has been described as a kind of impressionist-expressionist painting. While painting since a very young age, he is recently devoting much more time to his art and is steadily climbing up the ladder of the current art world one painting at a time. ARSTIS STATEMENT Capturing the emotion and the soul of the subject is everything – the sole point of painting in my opinion. Imagining how beautiful even mundane things would look when transferred in paint onto a suitable canvas is the source of my inspiration and motivation. I try my best to convey the sense of beauty and wonder that I receive from the subject to all viewers of my art in hopes that they feel the same as I did while I laid down the paints. When one looks at my art, they absolutely...

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