Jamshedpur artist Sonali Adesara spreads message of peace this Diwali

Jamshedpur, Nov 2: In the run-up to Diwali, an IT professional cum artist Sonali Adesara has painted in bright and vibrant hues which instantly radiate happiness and peace.

One can find this young artist bent over the floor for hours holding sheets of drawings and colours scattered around. With fans switched off she wipes her brow, stops for a minute and looks at her work. If she smiles you know the Rangoli is shaping up just the way she had planned.

Meet Sonali Adesara, the Mumbai-born artist now settled in the steel city silently goes about her work for hours together at her residence at Contractor’s Area Bistupur. The floor is her canvas and fingers are her brush.

She believes in spreading an aura of peace, happiness and most importantly positivity through her art.

“With the second wave of Covid-19 coming to end, I decided to spread a message of peace, positivity and a green Diwali this year. I let my emotions flow and somehow everything that I want to convey find their place on the canvas. It is just an inner joy which I feel when my thoughts are translated on the art work and that is when I know my work is done”, says a very cheerful Sonali.

Given her varied talents, her finesse with rangoli designs has made her won several accolades. “ I was born and brought up in Mumbai but after my marriage I have settled in Jamshedpur. Though I worked as an IT professional in a corporate firm, my passion to make rangolis has remained the same. It has been with me ever since I was in school. I have also won several competitions in Mumbai too,” she said.

Talking about her new Rangoli, she said that Diwali being an auspicious occasion, she has made Lord Buddha that symbolizes peace and positivity.

While feeling excited at the prospect of reaching out to too many others with her work, Sonali is equally delighted by the positive response from her friends and relatives. She is also keen to teach this talent to children who are interested in this.

Her biggest influencers are subjects, rather than people. She is heavily influenced by Indian mythology and spirituality and is currently working on a series of sculptures of Lord Ganesha and Buddha, capturing various moods and postures. “They say that you have to be lost in order to be found. Every artist strives for inner peace, and art is only a method of finding inner wholesomeness”, adds Sonali.