I am a self taught artist.I have been practicing art (sketching and painting) for the past 8years.I paint realistic, figurative, portraits and landscapes using different mediums Suchas oils, acrylics, water colors and soft pastels mixed media. Painting is a meditation for me.I believe art is a therapy, to restore mood, enables one to think with equanimity makes a person calm and positive. It also helps as a distresses.It’s my personal experience.At a point ,where I had to quit my teaching job as a Chemistry faculty, Art came tomy rescue.The main goal of a human life is to know one’s higher self.Art in the consecutive process leads one to that stage gradually, with immensesadhana, practice.