P Abigail Sadhana Rao
There is something profoundly human about the way rain quiets the world, how it slows time, blurs edges, and invites us to notice beauty in reflection. Drizzle Diaries emerges from that pause, a visual celebration of rain’s dialogue with art. Here, water is both muse and medium, a language spoken through the brushstrokes of five remarkable artists.
Each of these paintings on Mojarto captures rain not as weather but as mood, an emotional landscape where color, texture, and light converge. From the muted grace of Rome’s soaked pavements to the glowing bustle of Hyderabad’s streets, these works reveal the poetry of fleeting moments. They remind us that what is ephemeral is often the most unforgettable.
A City Reborn in Light
In Rome After Rain, Sajal Kumar Mitra transforms the eternal city into a reverie of tone and texture. His watercolor breathes, with gentle washes of lavender, grey, and ochre, suggesting ancient stone bathed in passing light. Cars and figures melt into their own reflections, as if time itself were dissolving in the puddles.
Mitra’s command over watercolor is evident in his restraint. He leaves air in the pigment, a transparency that mirrors the fragility of the moment. The painting is not about Rome’s architecture but about its silence after rain, that haunting pause between sound and memory. His philosophy that light and shadow are playful dances revealing truth feels alive in every shimmering reflection.
Pulse of Hyderabad After Rain
Iruvan Karunakaran’s Hyderabad Wet Street is a pulsating celebration of urban life. Set before the iconic Charminar, it brims with the color and chaos of a monsoon afternoon. Acrylic’s density allows Karunakaran to sculpt light itself, where every raindrop, umbrella, and glistening taillight becomes tangible.
Unlike the quiet introspection of watercolor, his medium amplifies energy. The sheen of wet asphalt, the crowded marketplace, and the interplay of red and yellow all speak of movement. Yet amidst the noise, there is tenderness. He paints not just a city but its people, vendors, riders, and walkers navigating rain as part of their rhythm.
Karunakaran is often called the painter of the everyday Indian, and rightly so. In his hands, the mundane becomes magnificent. The rain here is not melancholic, it is alive, rhythmic, deeply human.
Walking Through Rain and Memory
Sunil Linus De’s Rainy Walk invites viewers into a world where watercolor transcends technique to become emotion. His mastery lies in how he captures atmosphere, the cool transparency of rain soaked air, the softness of diffused light, the grace of two figures walking side by side.
The arches that frame the background create depth and rhythm, while the interplay of blue and violet tones lends the scene a hushed serenity. Each droplet seems suspended between realism and dream. Sunil’s spontaneous brushwork and fluid washes remind us that watercolor, when handled with reverence, breathes on its own.
In this work, rain is no longer a backdrop; it is the silent bridge connecting human presence and architectural memory, a dance between permanence and passing time.
Reflections Between Walls
The Rainy Street by Javaid Iqbal captures the meditative calm of urban stillness. Using watercolor and ink, a combination that balances softness with precision, Iqbal constructs a world of layered emotion. The narrow street, hemmed between shadowed buildings, opens into a horizon kissed by light.
The ink lines lend the structure of realism, while watercolor dissolves it into a mood. This fusion allows him to play with contrast, sharp yet transient, confined yet infinite. His perspective leads the viewer’s gaze upward, tracing wires and rooftops until the eye meets a pale blue sky. It is as though hope itself lingers in the fading rain.
This painting feels deeply cinematic, yet personal, a study of solitude amid the hum of the world. Iqbal paints soundlessly, and that silence speaks volumes.
Whisper of Skylines in Rain
Ayur Heganekar’s Raining in the City expands the horizon, a breathtaking aerial view where buildings emerge and dissolve under sheets of rain. His use of cool blues and muted greens creates a contemplative atmosphere, while subtle gradients of tone evoke depth and distance.
Heganekar’s style blends traditional Indian sensibility with contemporary precision. His cityscape is not just architectural; it is emotional, a portrait of modern solitude. From above, the city feels small yet infinite, its geometry softened by rain, its energy subdued into quiet harmony.
In this work, the rain becomes metaphor, cleansing, blurring, uniting. It reminds us that even in steel and concrete, nature finds its rhythm, its grace.
Rain as Muse
Drizzle Diaries, the curation on Mojarto is an ode to light, reflection, and the quiet poetry that emerges when the world slows down. Each painting, from Mitra’s reflective Rome to Heganekar’s vast skyline, tells a different story of drizzle, intimate, bustling, meditative, or monumental.
For the connoisseur, these are not just depictions of weather but of emotion made visible. The artists invite us to look again, at streets we walk daily, skies we ignore, and reflections that vanish too soon.
In their hands, blessings of showers from the skies become a painter too, shaping light, erasing boundaries, and revealing what truly endures: the beauty of a fleeting moment, held still by art.