The surrealist lines and landscapes of Dhanur Goyal’s pen and ink drawings blend mystery and meticulous detail. A life changing sojourn into the Himalayan Mountains spoke to Goyal. There in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, he began to sketch its tranquil, natural beauty and realized his true calling as an artist. 

Man’s intellectual and spiritual conflicts are illustriously balanced and captured in the colored pen and ink works of Goyal.  Varying in subject and style, his works include textured and barren landscapes, abstract drawings, and cartoon-like silhouettes that strike dramatic postures depicting extreme anguish or joy.  These figures question the existence of man and muse upon, using Goyal’s own words, “the changing mental landscape of the human mind.”  They depict the constant flux of human emotions, from hysteria to serenity, and the comprehension of life’s circular processes.  Born in New Delhi, self taught artist Dhanur Goyal has had several successful exhibitions in India. He is the only artist in India currently working with pen and ink in color.