Pavni Diwanji

I have always painted in my free time. It gets my creative juices flowing, it’s meditative, and gives me a much needed joyful respite from my daily crazy life as a mother, entrepreneur and tech executive. 

I used to be a water colorist for most of my early life and only moved to pastels a few years back. In my early life as a watercolorist, brush went where the water flowed. In contrast, I love the intentionality of expression and boldness of lines that pastels enable. 

My most recent series 'Ebb & Flow' is on display in Open Studios 2024. This series is all about my journey - feeling emptiness, experiencing change and rejuvenation, and eventually flowing, finding that peace and joy - and the cycle restarts. I immerse to capture the changing energy & movement of my travel outwards and inwards. Pastels help me catch the rising feeling of awe in wildlife and wild landscapes. Pastels also make my mundane in-home rituals memorable in serene stillscapes. In this series. I have pushed my compositions to be even simpler and bolder than my prior work. I continue to lean on a rich layering of colors and energetic strokes that mark my style. I start painting on site working quickly to capture the feeling, laying the foundational composition and colors and finishing the piece in my studio. I hope you enjoy this attempt to immortalize the ephemeral ebb & flow of my life.

I look forward to your engagement and response,

–Pavni