Aiyana Gunjan

Aiyana Gunjan’s art is the expression of her desire to discover herself. In the process of creativity she follows her own heart One can sense this flow through the movement and rhythm in whatever she does. She has incorporated all other parallel disciplines she has been practising along with her art. Her interest in music, calligraphy, design, prose and poetry has enriched her and is reflected in her art.

For Aiyana, her art has been a necessity, a compulsion of the soul. It is a discipline which is so therapeutic yet spiritual. This discipline gives her joy which is the core of her well-being. Her dedication and aspiration for understanding all arts have developed her perception, intense passion and untiring capacity to work with love and devotion.

SHOBHA BROOTA – Senior Artist, Art Educationist 

Aiyana’s natural intellectual curiosity and ability to distil large amounts of information into interesting insights were hugely valuable to us on two international projects, looking at ‘refreshments’ and ‘innovation’ in India.

Like-able, warm and emotionally intelligent Aiyana is a talented cultural detective with the ability to sift through huge swathes of information and spot what others might overlook. She can take small shoots and nurture them into persuasive insight. She’s also committed, thorough and nice to work with. I found her to be enthusiastic, full of great ideas, helpful and used tremendous initiative on both projects.

JOHN MURPHY – CEO and Founder TRUCKK, UK

Aiyana Gunjan is a rare artist, aesthete and scholar who beautifully combines analytics with artistry and logic with eloquence. Her artworks signify a profound distillation of esoteric meanings and lived life experiences, they are no mere markings on paper or cloth but speak of rhythms and cadences that are as ancient as time itself, as precious as life itself. I am always looking forward to what Aiyana has to offer next.

MINHAZZ MAJUMDAR – Writer and Curator of Indian Art

Since the first day of interaction with calligraphy, Aiyana Gunjan learnt and commanded the flow and restriction of calligraphy strokes very well and quickly. She also commanded the calligraphy pen very swiftly.  Later on, I too was amazed looking at the progress of my disciple. Aiyana Gunjan was not one of them whose passion for calligraphy diluted with time; rather it became more compassionate and meditative with the improvements and the experiments later. The best part of Aiyana Gunjan’s calligraphy classes is that she made all the progress by dint of both enthusiasm and dexterity.  And it all came to the fore by the sheer level of passion she still possesses.

ANIS SIDDIQUE – Calligraphy Guru

Aiyana is a self-taught artist who took up the calligraphy pen and explored it in its myriad manifestations. She has taken calligraphy to the level of fine art and created a body of work,

which is deeply spiritual, secular and inward-looking. Her works speak the language of meditative silence and move along the contours of her personal space. The title of the show The Moving Finger is inspired by Omar Khayyam’s poem Rubaiyat and captures the essence of Aiyana’s highly introspective work.

DR ALKA PANDE – Indian Academic, Author and Museum Curator

Aiyana is a brilliant semiotician and I am deeply impressed by her decoding of Auroville’s cultural codes. It is very insightful and useful in understanding the creative and formative tensions that underlie a culture and generate its cultural patterns.

MANOJ PAVITRAN – Design Thinking, Intergral Education Auroville

She has a fine and subtle sense of life which she brings to her work and her art with passionate sincerity Aiyana’s work is a perfect blend of fluidity of movement and intense attention to detail – and this creates a lingering and subtle meditative effect.

PARTHO – Poet, Writer and Teacher of Vedanta and Integral Yoga