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Art as an exploration Aruna Sharma is an eminent artist from Chandigarh. She has done M.A. Fine Arts and serving art from last 24 years to her students. She is creating forms the day she came to know that her fingers could draw the imagina- tions created in her mind. Art is her passion, her meditation. She has a great passion for the colors. She has done her work with bright colors or sometimes with monochromatic colors especially her cubism art paintings. Circles, curves, cubes are common motives and integral part of her work. When we talked ,she discussed her working style ,about her inspiration and her confident approach to study and paint not just for aes- thetic beauty ,but as an art explorer . She loves animals so her first solo show was dedicated to animals by making a painting series depicting the beautiful creatures of nature. When she was doing her graduation she was inspired by Ajanta art so much that she painted Ajanta from her eyes, and Ajanta art gave her the identity. She also loves to paint women, her pains, her gains, her dance, her feelings and emotions, everything. Woman are always a source of inspiration for her. “Sometimes it makes me sad but, it always is moti- vating me to do more about her. She is, inner me.She says! Besides this, she loves to do clay modeling, pottery, and as a leisure writes poems. 115