Work samples

  • Process
    Process

    Within my studio , the series Signals and Frequencies have evolved in dialogue with one another. Installed together, the works inform each other through relationships of form, color, and spatial tension, allowing each piece to shift in meaning depending on its context.

     

  • Process
    Process

    The use of sketches to inform the finished pieces evolved into its own process of contemplation and exploration.

  • Process
    Process

    Movement defines energy, yet the ways in which signals come together or move apart remain uncertain. Each work remains open — an exploration completed through the viewer’s perception.

  • Process
    Process

    Work in progress - more recent iterations move away from isolated moments and begin to explore continuity — considering space and time as fluid rather than fixed. Through this, the work investigates how energy is not only perceived, but sustained and transformed.

About Neela

A practice that has evolved through an ongoing exchange between art and architecture, Neela's work incorporates parallel modes of inquiry—space and form, particles and matter, her work focuses on energy, transitions, and how we perceive the way time is encountered—through a process grounded in observation and iteration, she's developed an evolving work that tests the boundaries between the ephemeral and the defined, the seen and the unseen.

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Signals

  • Signals I
    Signals I

    Small Song. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Signals II
    Signals II

    No Birth, No Death. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Signals III
    Signals III

    Love of heat.  Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Signals IV
    Signals IV

    Anywhere you go.  Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

Frequencies

After suffering profound loss, the desire to search for meaning through art became a form of meditation—an exploration of frequencies that are a distinct dynamic imprint in time, and of signals that remain with us.

  • Frequency I
    Frequency I

    For a moment, we had it all. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

  • Frequency II
    Frequency II

    Coming and going. Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20"

Studies

Using water color pencils to sketch studies for Signals and Frequencies was an important part of processing grief, while also working to give form to emotions. 

  • Signals Study
    Signals Study

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Signals Study
    Signals Study

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Signals Study
    Signals Study

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Signals Study
    Signals Study

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Signals Study
    Signals Study

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Frequency Study I
    Frequency Study I

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Frequency Study II
    Frequency Study II

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

  • Frequency Study III
    Frequency Study III

    watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5"

Intersections

A study of lines; the way they come together and what we see, versus what we want to see

  • Intersections I
    Intersections I

    Tea leaves tell you what you need to see (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

  • Intersections II
    Intersections II

    If connections were enough (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

  • Intersections III
    Intersections III

    Beneath the surface (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

  • Intersections IV
    Intersections IV

    Are we there yet? (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)

  • Intersections V
    Intersections V

    Songs have a way of lingering (pencil and marker, 9x12 paper)