WAITING AT THE WINDOW
Overall 159 by 69 cm.; 62 ½ by 27 ¼ in.
Signed and dated upper left: Anjolie Ela Menon ‘99 Acrylic on board, in an ornate carved wood frame in the form of a window Anjolie Ela Menon’s paintings are known for their transparent qualities and haunting imagery. In this work she draws on Byzantine and Romanesque styles of painting to express her personal fantasy. Menon’s ability to capture a frozen moment in time and to portray outward reality and inner reverie is what makes this painting hauntingly beautiful. ‘Few contemporary Indian artists have created works of such depth and beauty as Anjolie Ela Menon. Her Paintings reveal an extraordinary sensibility, profoundly individual in perception yet diverse in its sympathies, Indian in subject yet dwelling in some undefined territory.Best known are her portraits of women, innocent or haunted, but all distinctively faces created by Menon. Many of the portraits are of her friends and her family, revealing the passage of their lives and experience. She paints over panelled doors and windows which provide her with natural grids to contain a sense of fantasy and colour. Within these structures, the subjects are framed – often fragile and alone – eloquent in their solitude.’ Isana Murti on Anjolie Ela Menon