Sanchita Pasi

Bio

Sanchita Pasi (1990) is an Indian contemporary abstract painter that identifies mostly with the synaesthesiaart movement and uses texture, colors and mixed media to convey her inner world. Her preferred mode of expression is knife palette to build texture. She prefers to merge colors without blending them, and each layer holds its own emotion, energetic tie and stroke matrix. She creates complexity on each canvas, with every corner being dedicated to a different state of mind and emotional flow.

Sanchita is a natural autodidact and self-taught. She believes she is equal right and left brain focused. Her day job is healthcare venture capital guided by her logic and drive to make an impact in the world, whereas her night job brings out her creativity in the hope to evoke an emotion in the future viewer. Both these worlds feed each other and bring her a sense of balance and grounding. 

Her story begins in New Delhi (India) in 1990 and continues Egypt, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Spain. She has grown up in the Piedmontese region of Italy and is currently residing in Palma, Mallorca during the summer. Sanchita is self-taught and has started exposing her art to the world since her first solo exhibition in 2022 in Milan, Italy although she has been painting since 2017.

A word from the artist.

Tossed across geographies growing up, I have always felt like an outsider, never belonged. My sensory experience has always been my strongest channel to interpret my inner world and connect my body to the outer world.

I started painting in 2017 when I was unable to find any other form of communication to throw my feelings outside. Words kept failing me and my body would cry to release trapped energy by any means possible.

I began this journey with the use of brushes, which never felt right to my hand. I then turned to knife palettes, which in their fierce nature allowed me to perfectly glue colors on a canvas and create complex combinations of texture. Since then, I have played with several types of media, from acrylic to sand, on each piece as journey of exploring with colors and textures. The only guiding principle is the depth I love creating in every piece of work. Once completed, I love observing the canvas from different angles and seeing varying perspectives of complex emotions through color and media combinations.

I identify as a painter during the night and a venture capitalist by day. In parallel to my studies in pharmacy and career in healthcare finance, I believe my body of work has had a strong influence from my spiritual practice of yoga and pranayama. My paintings have seen a similar path throughout my journey of seeking balance and grounding over the past years.

“Skeptical of static definitions, I attempt to name my work as a result of becoming a spectator to my viewers as I observe how colors can touch some of their emotional notes. I relish in this ritualistic process to identify my own self through my viewers eyes and let them find a window into who I am as an artist.”