After years of Fine Arts study and international training, Padma's vibrant artwork reflects her spiritual and aesthetic experiences. Her diverse talent for fine art materializes through various media including painting, murals, fashion design, theatre sets, costume design, book design and illustration. Meditation and visualization are strong influences on Padma's work, as is apparent by the light, flowing imagery seen in her painting. She has exhibited in galleries worldwide, including New York, London, Taiwan, Singapore, India and Australia, plus held artist-in-residencies in New York, Italy and India.

Padma - Artist Statement
My intention in painting has always been to reveal the extraordinariness of the ordinary world, which so often is taken for granted. I do this by portraying everyday things; a flower, a stone, a tree as the miracles they really are. I often use gold, silver, pearlescent and iridescent light-refracting colours to do that. Those luminous mediums create a vibrancy that helps to bring the viewers attention to the pebble or petal I hope they will discover.

The apparent inelegant randomness of a field of grasses with poppies appearing here and there is an endless source of delight to me. I've returned to that floral theme many times and have done it in a variety of moods from fragile to robust, misty to brilliant.

Although my painting technique is of no particular tradition my work has been seen as having a distinctly eastern flavour. This is primarily due to the use of empty space which sets a " world beyond the frame", serenity to the artwork. When looking at each piece one gets the sense of glimpsing into a world seen yet somehow unseen. These tranquil atmospheric works are visual poems rather than botanical facts.

-Padma


In May 2002 Padma work was chosen to honour the Japanese Prime Ministers visit to Australia. The Asia Arts Society had hoped to find artwork that originated in Australia and that was in harmony with the aesthetics of Japan. They found what they were searching for at the National Gallery of Victoria's Spring Flowers Autumn Grasses exhibition, where two of Padma's 3 metre silver screens were on display at the exhibit's entrance. A detail from Padma's painting of chrysanthemums and grasses was selected as an example of art that bridges the diverse cultural communities of Australia and Japan.

Padma is the creator of bestseller The Osho Zen Tarot. Her TAO Oracle: An Illuminated New Approach to the I Ching includes a deck with 64 of her paintings and a 320 page book.