About This Artwork

Cheek to Cheek reflects the growing density of our cities, where buildings rise ever closer as land values soar and populations expand. Construction seems locked in a silent race—higher, faster, first. Amid this crowded landscape, a protected hill and its quiet prayer space remain as witnesses to a disappearing terrain once defined by undulating hillocks and sunlit boulders. The moonlit white stones glow like unexpected survivors. Buildings acquire watchful eyes, hinting at shrinking privacy and lives lived in close proximity.

#Bold #Calm #Dreamy #Dramatic #Energetic

About the Artist

Vallery Puri

Vallery is an artist whose creative journey began in early childhood and evolved into a professional practice in 1996. A self-taught painter, she has spent three decades developing a distinctive visual language inspired by personal experiences, nature, and the impact of human choices on the environment. Her work often explores themes of urbanisation, disappearing forests, and transformation. Vallery Puri is a contemporary, self-taught artist with over thirty years of painting experience. Working primarily in oils, she creates expressive works rooted in Post-Impressionist colour and emotion. Her subjects — faces, figures, flowers, forests and familiar interiors — reveal a deep sensitivity to light, stillness, and human connection. Known for her delicate layering technique and evocative use of colour, Vallery explores how emotion can live quietly within form and texture, a contemplative space where melancholy and vibrancy, silence and joy, coexist in harmony.