About Artist

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Gaya Bhola is a visionary surrealistic artist of international fame whose critically acclaimed art has been featured in Miami, and solo exhibitions in California, London (sponsored by Air India) and Basel.

An ardent believe in nature’s healing power Gaya advocates art as medicine. Invoking the Spirit of man into an evolutionary process thru absorbing the power of nature thru Art.

Gaya shares her paintings, her photography, poetry and filmmaking all as mediums to convey her depth of feeling for the Creator and Creation.

She has 2 books ‘A Journey of Love’ and ‘Love Story’ rendering her paintings and poetry and 2 feature films ‘Half Widow’ under her banner Gaya Art Films and ‘Mr. Paanwala’ under her banner Gaya In Art Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd.

In her collection -

ME AND MY ART

she captures what she sees with her inner eye and her outer eye combining her photography and paintings and reflecting that both worlds are an inseparable part of her life.

‘Love is all there is. Our essence is pure love. How shall we experience it?’

I am the daughter of an artist and a soldier...........

Life has been wonderful. I am grateful. Most challenging of all has been the integration

of the artist and the soldier inside me. Can you imagine what it is like to be soft,

sensitive, dreamy and intuitive juxtaposed with being highly organized, regimented, with

strong leadership and entrepreneurial qualities AND a commanding personality! It

should be obvious to think which side of me should be dominant.... but actually both

sides exist side by side. They support each other. I guess I just got lucky. Maybe

because my paternal grandfather and great grandfather were both doctors of Unani

Medicine. Also, my mother had a deeply spiritual nature and a very loving heart and it

was very healing to be around her. Maybe that was the common denominator.

My brother, Vijay, the only other person on the planet with exactly the same gene pool

as me .... has the same....a commanding, entrepreneurial nature and the gentlest

sensitivity of an artist. He has a heart that overflows with love and always has a lot of

friends. I guess the artist and the soldier exist side by side in him too. Peacefully.

So, who am I as the child of an artist and a soldier? I know I am alert to both.... nature,

the senses and mysticism.....and I am also alert to danger and destruction!

This has certainly played out in the area of love as you will see in the section.... KNOW

YOU KNOW ME. A series of revelations. In my life followed a sequence of events

exactly as was revealed in the paintings. It was daunting to think where it was all

coming from!

Having an artist for a mother and a soldier for a father is not about growing up in a

passive household. Actually, it was pretty super-charged. A lot of emotion, ideas,

creativity, projects, relatives......a constant flow of relatives...our home was a really warm

loving place....and constant activity, playtime, road trips etc. I grew up full of creative

ideas. Kept manifesting all these ideas. I have had multiple careers. I remember my

father once saying " If you get one more idea put it under your mattress and forget

about it! " my brother is my best friend but he also the one I have had the most fights

with. If you have met a sensitive, quiet, dreamy artist with a soft musical voice....that is

not me! I have a commanding organized stable personality but there is also the intuition,

the visions, deep perceptions of man and nature that have added much masala to my

life. I do not relate to starving artists. I believe being an artist is a place of great

abundance for all of life is open for you. Other artists may not feel the same but

remember I have the soldier in me that keeps things in order, the artist that likes to

express and the common denominator, the healing energy, that knows all things come

from love.