“My teacher wanted me to go to Jamia because it had the best staff at that time like A. But in a conversation with my mother, my teacher said that I was made to work in the field of Arts.” In eleventh standard, I chose commerce and I had ambitions to become CA. My teacher was very good and I was lucky to get great teachers. Sehgal shared, “I was very lucky in my initial phase. At that time, we were not married but we were together. When we asked her about her most loved painting, Sehgal said, “There is a small piece where I have painted myself and my husband. She also won a National Academy Award in painting in 2011 at Lalit Kala Akademi. She generally does figurative paintings of recognisable people. Presently, she is an HOD, Department of Painting. During 1990-1996, she was a lecturer of paintings at the College of Arts, Chandigarh, and from 1996 onwards, she was with the College of Arts, New Delhi. Sehgal has also been painting since 1990. In 1985, Sehgal took her degree in Bachelor of Fine Art, from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India and she did her Master of Fine Arts in 1987 from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat. In 2019, she also translated the text of the 'Jap Ji Sahib' into English. She has also published a book on Ghalib's ghazals which has visual translations as well. Sehgal also thanked curatorial advisor of her show Uma Nair for extending much needed support to promote her unique expression of arts. Painting in Egg-Tempera also sensitised my way of painting the Oils,” said Sehgal. The painted surface achieved through this medium is impossible in any other. Once introduced to this medium in 1991, by a French artist Christian Puard, it became addictive to the medium. “The medium of Egg-Tempera is a painting technique known of the old Masters of the west and is a forerunner of the Oils. I communicate with sketching, drawing, adding colour nuances, and so on,” she added. “While painting, I talk to myself in the language in which I am going to express, so it is the visual language.
I surrender to become a part of the life of that painting.” It imbibes many precious moments of my life, both from the conscious and the subconscious state of mind. I see my painting capture not just one particular expression in time, but it perpetuates in its totality. For me, art, both as an act of creation and the outcome is a fantastic phenomenon. Sehgal said, “While elaborating these for paintings, I indulge in expressional fantasies according to my present mental space.
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