Pratima Aravabhoomi
Born in India and currently working between Florida and New Jersey, Pratima Aravabhoomi is a self-taught American artist whose abstract paintings unveil the unseen—hidden narratives where nature, memory, and human experience intertwine. She explores the tension between structure and fluidity, presence and absence, transformation and stillness through layered compositions and mixed media.
With a background in computer science, Aravabhoomi moved to the United States after marriage and later studied graphic design at the Atlanta College of Art and Portfolio Center. Her work in technology and business deepened her fascination with systems and order—an influence that continues to shape her art, where precision and unpredictability coexist in a delicate balance.
A transformative meditation experience led her to painting as a way to express what words could not—turning to nature as both subject and mirror for human emotion. Her work reflects this ongoing exploration of transition, where what is visible is only part of the story.
Her artistic language is deeply rooted in her early experiences—growing up in a city where graffiti layered over aging walls spoke in unfamiliar scripts, running her hands through her mother’s collection of silk saris, absorbing her grandfather’s philosophical poetry, and learning about geological formations from her father. These textures, histories, and fleeting imprints manifest in her paintings as humanscapes—landscapes of humanness that reveal the stories time leaves behind.
Aravabhoomi’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and are part of private and corporate collections across the U.S. Through her work, she invites viewers to pause, look closer, and uncover the hidden layers within—bridging the world around us with the world within.
My work unveils the unseen—hidden narratives where nature and humanity intertwine. I paint not just to create, but to reveal—the echoes of memory embedded in landscapes, the weight of unspoken emotions carried in the wind, the imprints of human presence dissolving into the vastness of the world.
Using mixed media, I build layers of texture, color, and rhythm, much like time inscribes itself onto the land—shaping, erasing, and reshaping again. Fabric, paper, ink, and paint merge like remnants of an untold story, capturing the tension between permanence and impermanence, presence and absence, the seen and the unseen.
I call my work humanscapes—landscapes of humanness, where our inner and outer worlds converge. Inspired by my Indian heritage and life in the U.S., my paintings navigate the space between structure and fluidity, solitude and movement, the personal and the universal. They are reflections of our connection to the world around us—where nature is not separate from us, but a mirror of our hidden landscapes.
Each piece invites the viewer to pause, to look beyond the surface, to sense what lingers in the silence. In a world that often overlooks the unspoken, my work asks: What remains unseen? What stories are held in the textures of time? Where do we end, and where does the world begin?
Through abstracted realism, I seek to uncover these quiet, evolving dialogues —where human experience and the natural world are not separate, but deeply intertwined.