Ashwini Sadekar

Ashwini Sadekar is a Seattle-based oil painter who uses light and color to create still lifes that almost resemble abstract paintings with obvious influences of scientific investigation, nature, and her own culture.

Originally from West-Central India, Sadekar obtained her graduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University in Canada. Her training with such artists as Charles Miano, Camille Przewodek, and Kimberly Trowbridge shows in her work, and the relationship between geometry and color is the most prominent theme in Ashwini’s collections. Her current collections express the seasonal motifs of the Pacific Northwest and the color spectrums residing in the PNW’s flora and fauna.

Color is Ashwini Sadekar’s creative motivation. She lives and breathes color, seeing it as an indicator of individual experience. Her work aims to investigate the nature of color. She asks, “is it perceptual or conceptual? A science or a sensation? Physical or intellectual? Tangible or intangible? Spontaneous or calculated?” She always reaches that same conclusion, that color is a unique experience perceived by each individual on a cellular level.

The PNW provides Ashwini with a seasonal perspective of color, with certain colors invoking a specific response from her as the cycles turn and the leaves change. From red to purple, the colors of the rainbow are present in Washington’s lush reserves of evergreens, daffodils, and peonies, and in the goldfinches and chickadees that flower the trees with their feathers.