‘Cornucopia of Eden’ began as a small notebook sketch of an overgrown garden and grew, slowly, into a canvas about abundance.
Anju built the work in three movements. First, the deep green ground — laid in washes thin enough to read the linen weave beneath. Then the foliage, painted wet-into-wet so the colours could bleed naturally into one another. Finally the blossoms, lifted last, like punctuation on a long sentence.
The piece holds a kind of generosity. Collectors have described it as "hopeful" and "alive" — words the studio rarely hears about quieter works.
Every painting carries the day it was made. ‘Cornucopia of Eden’ carries an entire monsoon: weeks of rain, opened windows, and a studio that smelled faintly of wet earth and linseed oil.
