Anu Kalikal, one of the most brilliant contemporary Indian artists, is so influenced by nature and the environment and every being exists within their surroundings, and every environment exists within every being. In each of us there exists the awareness of responsibility as well as the space to protect all life in the form of one’s ‘conscious spaces’. She meticulously translates her responsibilities into her infatuations as art. Anu is a well-qualified person to represent and care for other beings, that’s her identity, that’s her art and that’s her life; she fills those into creative terminologies.

It has been demonstrated that those who create the most beautiful things in life can most easily create their concept as simple and unexpected. For example, a typical sketch of Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘flying machine’ was drawn on paper (All Leonardo’s drawings are executed on paper (usually white, but occasionally blue) made from clothing rags of hemp or linen). Nonetheless, it evolved into a legitimate and magnificent product that makes human existence unbelievably fast and easy. That sketch has a direct lineage to modern aircraft. Leonardo did everything we needed to know about the world. He sketched out an aerial screw over 420 years before the first helicopter was built.

It’s the same with Anu’s sketches. In a few lines, she completes the big message every time. One example, two birds sit outside a window, telling the old man and the child, living inside the home about the lost nesting tree/habitat for the young bird; here Anu creates the message for the human race. A closer look at the picture reveals they are both (old man and child) future and present characters. Such powerful concepts/messages by the artist to humanity is what we need to preserve our biological existence for future generations as healthy and sustainable.

Anu constantly creates life’s precious consciousness and emotions through arts and fills them with compassion and thoughts of other beings in a brilliant way through colors and lines. Education in English literature and creative arts at Madras Christian College and graphic design from the Oscar institute Dubai has given her the confidence to pursue a career in the arts. It is admirable that Anu constantly explores the cultural significance around her existence and the world, and the art world should recognize and support her to be resourceful and original. Anu has participated in more than 13 art shows and fabulously created hundreds of illustrations for literature, especially for poetry by prominent writers around the world.

In the world of art, Anu is a well-trained artist and a ‘humane’ being who devoted her life to the fundamentals of nature; not the gravitation etc. but love and care.