‘Where The Sky Remembers’: Ashish Kushwaha’s solo exhibition

An exhibition titled ‘Where The Sky Remembers’, featuring recent works by Ashish Kushwaha, opened at Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, on April 23. The show presents a series of paintings in watercolour on paper and acrylic on canvas, centred on landscape as a space of memory, ecological reflection and quiet resistance.

Drawing from his upbringing in a farming family in Chhattisgarh, Kushwaha’s work reflects a close engagement with the natural world. His paintings move beyond conventional landscape, depicting sweeping vistas of fields, mountains and water bodies set beneath expansive skies that shift between dusk and night. Constellations and subtle changes in light lend the works a contemplative tone.

Human figures are largely absent, but their presence is hinted at through small details such as huts, houses, boats and vehicles. These appear at a reduced scale, emphasising the vastness of the terrain and the fragility of human intervention. Animals recur in the compositions, not as secondary elements but as part of a shared ecosystem.

The works also respond to concerns around rapid urbanisation and environmental strain. Kushwaha’s travels across Himalayan regions inform a visual language that focuses on atmosphere and experience rather than specific locations. In several acrylic paintings, vivid colours—pinks, blues and greens—create landscapes that appear suspended between reality and imagination.

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The exhibition brings together works that balance stillness with an underlying tension, using landscape to reflect on contemporary anxieties and changing relationships with nature.

When: Until May 23; 11 AM to 7 PM

Where: Palette Art Gallery, 14, Golf Links, New Delhi