PadukaArts.

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Art & film by Aranie Rasalingam

A closer
look.

Where the soul meets the surface.

Paduka Arts explores the connections that shape our lives—between people, the natural world and the stories we carry forward.

Explore the work

Eekshanam (Shedding Skin), an expressive portrait in red, gold, green and black.
Eekshanam (Shedding Skin) · Painting

Made to be
looked at again.

Selected paintings

Liminal Forest, an elephant emerging from blue and green painted textures.
Liminal Forest
Acrylic & oil pastel · 12 × 12 in
The Gathering, a portrait in warm pink, orange and gold.
The Gathering
Acrylic & oil pastel · 12 × 12 in

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Hand-sculpted wall relief of a banyan tree with cream leaves, gold-toned branches and deer beneath its canopy.
Banyan & deer relief · Explore the details

In the studio

Some ideas need
a different surface.

Paint, plaster, timber, something found and kept. I like the point where a material suggests a direction I hadn’t planned.

Each piece leaves room for the viewer’s own associations, and for meaning to deepen with time.

I’m Aranie, an artist and maker based in the Greater Toronto Area. PadukaArts brings together my work with materials and my growing practice in documentary film.

A little about me

Documentary film

A voice.
A laugh.
A whole life.

There’s more to a person than the milestones. I want to make films that leave room for the small things, too.

I’m beginning with The Hands That Build, a documentary project about makers and the knowledge they carry.

Step into the film work

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