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Vineet

"Hello everyone, I'm Vineet. Life is beautiful, and perfect joy comes from doing what appeals to you. Though I am a chartered accountant, I realized this is not what I really wanted to do. After completing my CA, I worked as a stock market technical analyst for ten long years. During these years, though I was in a good position, I somehow was not happy with my life and how things were turning out. Most of the time I was tense and confused. So I quit my job and took some time out to relax and study what life really has to offer.

"I joined seminars on religion and spirituality, and this was perhaps the turning point in my life. While attending a seminar on The Art of Living, I learned that you can be happy and at ease only when you do something that interests you from within. I decided to take up something that was innovative, challenging and interesting, and this was art. Much to the disappointment of my parents, I plunged into arts and crafts. As a child, I was always keen on extracurricular activities like art, painting and music, but in India these are not considered a profession. So perhaps my interest and burning desire in the field of arts and crafts were buried within.

"Dhokra is an amazing art form that originated in the eastern part of India. It depicts the lifestyle of tribal people. I associate and incorporate this art with different cultures and traditions, for example, I recently designed 'The Last Supper' in dhokra, which looks amazingly wonderful. This way, I want to bring together different cultures, traditions and art into one platform. Besides dhokra, I am also concentrating on lead crystal. I designed various deities in lead crystal and it has received compliments from a number of quarters.

"At present I have twelve people assisting me, and we have participated in exhibitions held in foreign embassies."

Dhokra art is created through a laborious lost wax process. A model is sculpted of clay and dried in the sun. It is then covered with beeswax and more clay, forming a mold. The piece is cast, cleaned, and again dried in the sun. Finally, it is heated in the ground for five days and polished.

Because each piece is an individual work of art, size and shape can vary slightly from that pictured.