About

Artist – based in Jammu.

This is what some eminent people say about me…

In Milan Sharma’s work, there is a complete rapport between the desperate figures. Let us say that love ballads are thereby recreated here visually with a keen finesse. Yet it is some such like human warmth which permeates the body of these feelingful compositions. The libido is in a state of health, with nothing therein of the days morbid or the self destructive. Clearly, also, a true communication or communion is on in between one colour and another, between objects and subjects, and things and thoughts. Life certainly is seen to being lived to the full, since there is a connection between the lots of the details. All parties being on talking terms, the counters or components in these painting have no loose ends to speak of. It is indeed a full pictorial speech, no matter the, at time, slide long faces. They all face each other, never expressing any excessive neurotic individuality. The personality of these is in union, not broken fragments. Here therefore is a celebration, the joy of living, being a fiesta of colour, the flowing of the images from the memory right into the present moment. Thus the familiar bric-a-brac gets a transformative fresh lease of life, not as decorative piece, but as making contribution to the here and now. The multiple faces become acceptable to our inner reason in order that we are at peace with the world of poetic fantasy, not merely weighed down with the crushing order of brute facts.
Keshav Malik (Art Critic)

Brought up in a remote picturesque hilly areas like Panchari and Udhampur, the least exposed part of the country, naive, but with distinct culture, consisting of rituals, beliefs, tales, images of non-popular ditties, animals reptiles etc. These are the incised memories. The memories Milan live with. She displays in her work the combination of these lively motifs which are based on both nature and the order, which in her work evolved with a conscious effort without any flamboyancy in colour yet splendorous aesthetically. The beautiful in her work is non-advantageous distribution of light and shade. What makes her work simple, with sympathy and feeling, free of any satirical or sensational intensions, sentimentality and affectation, is the humble imagery that oozes out from her both conscious and sub conscious mind. Her palette is naive, which her display of colour, undoubtedly is the best gift Panchari or Udhampur could have given Milan.
Bhushen Koul (Eminent Painter)