Connecting through creativity
Your story through art
Ravindra Proctor
Title
Confusion
Category
Painting
Description
The work represents a lens of how the artist views the world after his traumatic brain injury. Inspiration is drawn from Australian First Nations art, which the artist describes as an affinity he feels.
Born in Sri Lanka the artist came to Australia when he was eight. A significant part of his heritage is Tamil, who are racially Dravidian people. The same DNA has been traced back around 5000 years in the First Nations people. This may explain part of the affinity he feels.
Title
Mountain Range
Category
Painting
Description
This work brings together a vision about mountain ranges the artist had in his mind. It's all jumbled and confused, a mix of earthy colour.
The depth that developed if one looks at the contrasting colours is similar to the way that the artist can sometimes feel. We are all mountains bursting from the same earth.
Title
The light
Category
Painting
Description
For the artist, orange is one of his favourite colours as it's so bright and vibrant. It makes him feel alive and also represents the Dutch part of his heritage. There are areas of darkness and light over time, he managed to confine them within boundaries.
He is learning to accept that there will always be dark areas in life and that we have a choice to focus on the light not the darkness.
