Metamorphic Landscapes

Phaneendra Nath Chaturvedi is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice unites human, animal, and spiritual dimensions. His art reflects metamorphosis, continuity, and the eternal rhythm of coexistence.

Metamorphic Landscapes is a visual and philosophical journey through the intertwined worlds of nature and the self. In this series, Phaneendra Nath Chaturvedi transforms animals into sculpted threads of existence 3D embroidered forms surrounded by painted butterflies. Inspired by the weaving traditions of Banaras and the silence of Jim Corbett’s forests, the works explore transformation, memory, and the fragile balance of life in the Anthropocene.

Phaneendra Nath Chaturvedi’s recent body of work unfolds a poetic dialogue between painting and embroidery, an exploration of transformation, texture, and hidden life. His canvases, densely layered with butterflies and ethereal figures of animals, pulse with both metamorphosis and memory. Rendered in silk thread that glimmers across painted ground, these works blur the boundary between illusion and tactility, imagination and instinct. Each embroidered form appears to emerge organically from the painterly landscape, each revealing and concealing the other, as if nature itself were stitching its secret narratives back into the fabric of the world.