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Painting to Jyotika Sehgal is...

“While painting, I talk to myself in the language I am going to express, so it is the visual language. I communicate by sketching, drawing, adding colour nuances, and so on. So I have many visual backup materials for my work where I read and write my pictures. I oscillate between the languages, lingual and visual, elaborating on the text both in words and in pictures.”

“While elaborating on these for painting, I indulge in expressional fantasies according to my present mental space. For me, art, both as an act of creation and the outcome, is a fantastic phenomenon. I see my painting capture not just one particular expression in time but perpetuate in its totality. It imbibes many precious moments of my life, both from the conscious and the subconscious. I surrender to become a part of the life of that painting.”

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2011, National Academy Award in Painting, Lalit Kala Akademi, India.

Theory Around Visual Translation.

Prof. Sehgal holds a Ph.D. in Practice-Based Research conducted in England and Delhi on the subject of “An inquiry into the ‘lingual to visual’ translation process as a form of trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural mediation.”Building upon this research, she authored her multilingual book titled “to reach you, I dream,” published by the Lecti Book Studio in 2018 within their Loom-Mool series.

In 2019, she released an e-book titled “Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s, Jap Ji Sahib, Manifestations of the Magnificent” on Smashwords.com. In 2024, her second edition of the book was released on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Apple Books. Subsequently, she expanded her spiritual endeavor through the process of Visual Translation, publishing the book titled “Sab Ek Oangkaar, Nanak” on both platforms.