Known as a strong-minded character, Mumbai-born Krupa Shah has found fame in advancing colour field techniques by cleverly slipping symbolic still life object like conch into her paintings. Not only did this technique exhibit her considerable artistic skills, it also gives spectators insight into her intellectual, rarified way of living, as seen in The Energy Vibration, for example. In this way, she imagines a kind of direct communion between herself and the viewer, one which might touch the viewer with a higher spirituality.

Although known for being one of the prominent colour field painters, Krupa Shah’s hot bursts and crackly lines of vivid hues that conjure tears and gashes are distinct from say Rothko’s more simplified washes of colour or Newman’s thin lines.