Since graduating from the Universtity of Arts in London, UK based visual artist Gudawer Kalirai has been working closely with clients, designers and consultants creating original, bespoke commissioned artworks. 

With an emphasis on architecture, nature and abstract elements Gudawer creates dynamic large scale works using photographic and digital techniques. By manipulating the colour, texture, light and shape of layered imagery  Gudawer has developed techniques that allow him to enhance ideas, concepts, compositions, and subject matter. Inspiration comes from the development, experimentation and evolution of individual projects.

     
Selected commisions list can be seen here.

In his limited edition prints Gudawer explores the relationship and connection between inanimate and organic objects through the process of experimentation and digital composite photography. Compositions present forms and shapes that seek out unintentional symmetry, contradictions and observations from random experience and interaction. The process is instinctive and organic, allowing each piece to dictate its own destiny. Images are often shaped by the rhythms, moods, tensions and transient elements of familiar forms and patterns. 

By experimenting with simple elemental forces Gudawer creates complex patterns  that are reflected in the natural world and utilizes this connection in his imagery. Self organised systems appear  everywhere and in an endeavour to understand how forms and shapes emerge, Gudawer explores and discusses the relationship between chaos and order and the concept that chaos, order and pattern are built into nature’s most basic rules.

Trees and woodland in particular are reminiscent of fragmented memories and emotions. The constant changes that occur in the process of life, death, decay and evolution are apparent in the images and beauty is found in these transformations. Images capture a fragment in time, a fleeting temporary moment in the cycle of life and invite the viewer to appreciate the complexity of the environment and its natural power. There is a fascination with natural landforms, an aesthetic craving along with a need for escape and a desire for understanding. The work discusses the experience of beauty and the pleasure of looking.  The idea that beauty is engraved deep in our minds and our relationship with natural surroundings is a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins that have fundamentally shaped our perception of beauty. Beauty is in the culturally conditioned eye of the beholder but the experience of beauty with its emotional intensity and pleasure belongs collectively to our evolved human psychology.