Oil on Canvas

18" x 24" in 

45.7 x 61 cm

2025

Abhishek is an Indian artist based in Berlin who paints oil works exploring solitude, introspection, and emotional duality through abstracted, layered landscapes. Influenced by Matthew Wong, Van Gogh, and Kandinsky, his paintings reimagine loneliness as a space for reflection, transformation, and new emotional possibilities

Being alone rarely arrives gently. It begins as a restlessness, a subtle ache. But in time, it softens, settles, becomes a kind of second skin. I do not resist it. Solitude shields me—from noise, from needless currents, from the energies that pull without offering anything in return.

Yet in today’s world, true solitude is elusive. We are surrounded by shadows of others—our devices, our feeds, our curated distractions. They offer the illusion of aloneness while keeping us tethered. We may appear solitary, but inwardly remain crowded. In such a world, the act of being alone—truly alone—becomes an act of reclamation.

It is only in nature that this solitude becomes whole. There, one can hear the self again—uninterrupted, unfiltered. A quiet dialogue begins, not with words, but with awareness. In the painting, the figure sits on the edge of the chair—not relaxed, but alert. Listening. Turning inward. The world around him dissolves into abstraction, and only a few anchoring forms remain—just enough to remind him that reality, like solitude, is what we choose to hold onto.