Be it baking, painting, indoor gardening, creating music, or journaling, the pandemic has ingrained a diverse range of interests in people and emerged as major avenues to de-stress. On similar lines, resin art, too, grabbed a lot of attention during the pandemic. It is an unstructured form of abstract and free-flowing art that looks different on different surfaces as is created without the use of brushes or paints.

Poonam Shah, a Santacruz-based resin artist, explains, “The everyday glimpses of stunning street-art while I was in Philadelphia, and a mother who introduced me to the promising world of colours, encouraged me to create and explore art. The early years of resin art were all about understanding how every surface responds differently to every colour, giving rise to a sense of adventure and unpredictability. The grandeur of this art is what attracts me to it.”