‘Making art makes me happy and allows me to sleep peacefully at night’

Three years ago, when Arnav Man Singh was just 20, he decided not to go back to college and instead focus on becoming a full-time artist. Today, his abstract artworks are earning rave reviews.

Inside Arnav Man Singh’s studio in Thamel’s Kathmandu Art House (a space created by KGH Group and Museum of Nepali Art’s CEO and director Rajan Sakya for Nepali artists to work and showcase their artworks) are paintings hung and placed on the wall, and the floor. Some paintings have purposeful shapes and lines, while others feature layers that create an unusual and unsettling visual. Unless enveloped by their emotions, his paintings will look messy to the untrained eye.