Embodying images drawn from the world around her – mainly the graphic experience of coastal living in Kerala – Sosa Joseph has, like many other artists through history, investigated the emotional and spatial qualities of her environment and that of her personal life, blurring the boundaries between the two in works that have a comprehensive visual impact. In both her small and large format paintings we confront the artist's world of reality crossed with fantasy: nature, often aqueous, spills over with the catch of the day stacked high in nets and baskets, crabs and shrimps still scuttling for shelter. There is a frequent withdrawal into domestic space with representations of pots and pans and still-life arrangements of cutlery, crockery, flowers and fruit. An added depth is proposed by the sensuality suggested by movements and textures, an effect enhanced by the different ways Sosa uses paint. The visibility of layering underscores the importance of the painting process itself, while the mixing and re-mixing of her colors often whitened down to the consistency of pastels even in her watercolors and oils, enables her to achieve subtle chromatic and textural nuances with thin layers of paint. Sosa's is an art practice with both personalized and universal content, an art very much involved in painterly processes and in the privileging of intuition, emotion and imagination.

Born 1971 in Kerala, India
Diploma in Painting, Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts, Mavelikkara, Kerala
Post-Graduate Diploma in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda
Lives in Cochin