Started career as a painter while studying for B.F.A in the Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh, she was then awarded scholarship to study M.F.A in prestigious Academy of Fine Arts called “V.I Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute” at Moscow, Russia in year 1989 pursuing the seven years Degree course specializing in Oil Painting. Represented India in the International Art workshop Interplenair 1995 in Divnogorsk and Krasnoyarsk and exhibited her works in the expositions following it In Siberia and Moscow along with many other renowned Russian and South Asian country Artists. She has since then, held many successful solo and group shows in India and abroad.
One of her Silk Batik work is in the collection of the Surikov Art Museum in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. One of her works titled “The Alternate World II” won a Gold Medal at the National Art Competition. She has been featured in the first Indian all-woman e magazine “Star’tists” along with many internationally famed artists and has works featured in many coffee table books.
She has been a recipient of Senior Fellowship award from Ministry of Culture for her outstanding work in the field of Visual Art. She is an author of state of the art research book titled “The Impact of Sociology of Culture on artists and their contribution to the Society and History” for the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Harsh has been appointed as the representative of Roerich International Centre in India and helping build a cultural relationship between India and Russia. Exhibitions of the works of Russian and Indian children have been successfully held in different parts of both countries. The focus is on making children aware about the culture of other nations and at the same time learning techniques and art forms from each other.
Harsh has developed a neoteric style of painting combining the realistic and abstract forms. Her works exhibit symbolism. The drawings are a blend of emotions, thoughts and moods all depicted colorfully on the canvas. Figures and forms in Harsh’s paintings are usually expressive, real and unreal at the same time. She tries to create new type of lucid forms which amalgamate with the surroundings. She is inspired by Nature exploring shapes – especially circles and spirals, which are the age-old intuitive symbol of spiritual development and our identity with the universe. As ‘re-volution’ or ‘re-evolution’, the spiral progression is symbolic of the transpersonal route to that higher level of consciousness. Paralleling these inner movements of the psyche which indicate the transformative and the integrative are movements in physical space. Her recent works are highly intuitive and metaphysical in nature. One may see through many layers which results in a multi dimensional view. It’s a process which she invented and intending to carry on exploring the philosophical questions of “The Ultimate Truth” and “Search for the Unknown”.
