Drawing Room: Sahaya Sharma takes a journey with Anjolie Ela Menon’s Yatra

Take a closer look at Anjolie Ela Menon’s triptych, Yatra. Like life, it demands that the viewer embark on a journey

Sahaya Sharma is a painter, designer, musician and healer. Her work focuses on the spiritual and psychological realms of consciousness.

My grandmother was an early collector of Anjolie Ela Menon’s art. I’ve grown up seeing cosy, maximalist clusters of Menon’s paintings on the living-room walls of her home. I felt particularly drawn to the vivid turquoise and Menon’s frequent inclusion of black-and-white checks to offset earthy browns.

Yatra is based on the annual march of the kawariyas to the Ganga. (SAHAYA SHARMA AND ANJOLIE ELA MENON)

Menon’s 2017 triptych, The Goatherd, is also about the journeys ordinary people make. (IMAGE COURTESY: AICON GALLERY)