August 10, 2004

Every so often I see work that makes me say, "Well, yes, that's what I'm trying to do but some thing seems to have interfered between my brain and the page." Prashant's journals always make me feel that way.
He emails me tantalizing glimpses from them every so often and I get quite green with envy. His watercolors are so loose and bright and expressive.
Prash came to Toronto from India some five years ago. He says: "if I was to describe myself...i'd say that I am a scribe. I keep sketchbooks all the time, it's moved from sketchbooks to sketchboxes...with loose pages, and now they are leather pouches that I stitch myself."
Prash has sent me journal pages he made in India: on his recent visit to Quilon, his childhood home on the south west coast of India, and of the lighthouse in Tangeserri; to Benares, the holy city in the north; and to Goa. And also scenes from Canada, his new home: his solo camping trip on an island in the Moose River; and, most recently, an old sedan being being shot in his neighborhood for the Russell Crowe movie, Cinderella Man.
Prash works for Cuppa Coffee, a lovely animation studio where he's developing a kids' show called Ted's Bed. The series looks to be an updated version of Nemo in Slumberland and the website is full of watercolored postcards with beautiful calligraphy in Prash's signature style.
If you'd like to know more about Prash, drop him a line.