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Paintings find their voices.
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Art makes room
for new ideas.
Look a little closer.
Explore Anjali Arora’s historical paintings and early web works, alongside new art readings and interface studies. Start with the dated artist archive or follow a project below.
Historical Artbrush
Anjali Arora: paintings and early web works
Earlier Artbrush pages presented Anjali Arora’s oils, watercolours, digital prints and interactive works. Begin with the dated gallery guide, then open the historical images and project captures through their archive links.
Watercolours · Still life · Townscapes · New York City prints · The museum · Nothing Is Impossible Out Here · The earthquake sequence
Historical work is credited to its creator. This independent edition provides records and commentary; its new illustrations are not the artist’s original paintings.
Art & interactionPainting meets the interface
Close readingsIdeas grounded in the work
Original visual studiesDiagrams that explain
Follow the sourcesTrace each historical record
Inside the journal
Three ways to read
Art readingsA line of dialogue, a patch of colour, a timed frame: interpretations begin with the work’s particular decisions.Project recordsWhat survives, what it identifies and what remains missing. A short source trail can stay short.Interface studiesIndependent practical studies with their own content: form, grouping, retrieval and navigation.
Featured projects
Explore the sourcesNew editorial cover illustrations introduce the historical projects explored in these guides.
Nothing Is Impossible Out Here
The conversation behind a favour.
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A Jolt from Deep Within
An image read through time.
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Digital Divide
From connection to influence.
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Urban Lullaby
A small gesture changes a scene.
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My Two Worlds
Painting becomes a moving city.
Read the projectLook at the work.
Follow the question.
Colour, light
& a closer look.
Three close readings of colour, light and space, with a route to all eight historical watercolour records.
Read the watercolours
A new way into
an early web.
Artbrush connects historical works with questions you can explore today. Our independent edition pairs close readings with original diagrams and practical design examples.
Historical works keep their creators’ names. New guides and illustrations belong to the current editorial edition.
About this edition
Evidence before interpretation
Historical records stay linked and credited.
Small details, useful questions
A frame, a gesture, a path through information.
A clear editorial voice
Edited by Ellis Vey, the pen name used by Artbrush Editorial.
Ideas to explore
Artist resources
Finding what you remember
Follow a complete five-record example of scope, tags and clips.
Design around a reader’s task
See how audience and stage reshape a resource library.
What a project view needs
Read one recorded response about shared information.
Stay with a detail.
Repetition & formPainting to interfaceA mail-art recordA recovered FlyHi draftEmail & attention
New readings from recovered records
Follow the original addresses into design, computing and close looking.
- ArchChive: A Leaf Can Tell Time, but Can It Find a File?
- A Portfolio Needs More Than a List of Skills
- Four Abstract Prints, Four Ways to Hold an Eye
- A Blog About Technology Begins Away from the Screen
- One Glowing LED Does Not Explain a Whole Circuit
- A Silent Sonar Reading: Separate the Pulse from the Number
- The Pot Is an Object; the Reflection Is an Event
- A City View Changes When the Small Structure Matters
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