Ravi Mandlik (b. 1960)

Ravi Mandlik is a contemporary Indian abstract painter who explores the space where energy, emotion and spirituality meet through colour and movement. A graduate of Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai, Mandlik is part of a generation of Indian artists who sought to create a modern visual language while staying rooted in philosophical and natural symbolism. His paintings with spontaneous brushwork and layered textures evoke elemental forces – wind, water and light – as metaphors for inner states.

Drawing from Indian spirituality and Western abstraction, Mandlik’s paintings are about balance and transformation. The rhythm of his compositions is both turbulent and still, chaotic and controlled – a dialogue between the physical and the metaphysical. Over the years his work has been exhibited widely in India and internationally and he is one of the leading voices of contemporary Indian abstraction.