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STAR: What is your inspiration behind this series of paintings? ARUNA.S: a Rich heritage of our coun- try and day to day life, stories inspired me. Like everybody can’t go to Ajanta to see the cave paintings so I took Ajanta near the door to them by painting the Ajanta cave series. The Ajanta Caves have located in Aurangab- ad district of Maharashtra state of India The caves include paintings and rock cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving exam- ples of ancient Indian art, particularly expres- sive paintings that present emotion through gesture, pose and form.This inspired me to create them using my own style. STAR: What style of art would you classify your work? ARUNA.S: Basically I paint in cubic and block style and this style became my identity too, beside this I like semi realistic and minia- ture art style too. STAR: How did your artworks become famous? ARUNA.S: I just randomly started putting my work on art groups on FB and ones who liked my work suggested me to have exhibi- tions of my artwork. So I started participating in local art shows and workshops and once I started getting recognition, I started having solo and group shows in different cities. 121