A Lonely Road by Shruti Bhoyar
“Nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age”.
- Beryl Bainbridge.
Grandparents can be left without support systems as their families disperse to countries across the world.
As they age, they experience many losses. Loss is painful, whether it's a loss of independence, mobility, health, career, or someone you love. These feelings of grief and sadness can last for a long time.
In this visual art work Shruti has captured how isolated older people might lose interest in the activities they used to enjoy. Through her illustrations Shruti shows how feelings of loneliness consume a grandfather in India, who finds it harder and harder to get through the day. One thing he treasures is to speak to his grandson every week, which brings light and positive thoughts into his life.
“In this piece I have tried to explore the life of an older man living by himself, missing his grandson who he loves dearly and the existential questions starting to inevitably arise towards the end of his life”.
- Shruti Bhoyar
Shruti Bhoyar
Shruti is a freelance Graphic designer, Illustrator and Muralist based in North Somerset. She has a Bachelors degree in Applied Art and worked as a Commercial artist in Mumbai for several years. When she picked up a paint brush again a few years ago it was to paint murals. Shruti’s murals came about through a love of painting and aesthetic in art and design. She loves incorporating the strong women form into her murals but sometimes the brief can be limiting which she tries to then capture in her digital art. Details are an important element in her illustrations and she loves adding depth to the artwork by including lots of extra little elements, even if they’re small and subtle. Her work often depicts vivid scenes, vibrant colours, patterns and lots of foliage.
Like most artists Shruti is driven by an innate, compulsive desire to create. She believes practising more disciplines help her better understand the core mechanics of art and design. Be it a water colour or a cross-hatch portrait, a typographical illustration or a digital design composition, a botanical drawing or a thumb-sketch for a mural, theres always something new to explore everyday.
“If you love doing what you do you will jump out of bed every morning wishing there were more hours in every day”.
CREDITS
Created by Shruti Bhoyar
Commissioned by Ad Infinitum and Culture Weston.
