An artist is, or should be known, by the works he creat. It is immaterial where an artist is born or what School he attend or any such item which can be termed as biodata. Tralochan Oberoi whose works are reproduced in this volume will be known by the intrinsic quality of these works.

That he sattled in Denmark in 1972 and has devoted himself to what I would call his experiments in Geometry and space, is only an incidental information. We know the personality of an artist from what he has to show us.

One thing that emerges clearly from the perusal of his works in the all important fact that Tarlochan Oberoi is restless in his search for expression through simple forms. it is also self- evident that he is sincere in his desire to communicate his restlessness or his spirit of inquiry to the viewer.

I do not know how far an Art Institution can claim credit for shaping the personality of an artist. After all Art Institutions do not create artist but only help those who are born artist. If the college of Art, New Delhi, where Tarlochan Oberoi went through his course of studies, has to claim anything for the success of Tarlochan Oberoi, it can only be certain sense of pride and satisfaction in the knowledge tha this distinguished designer was sometime our student.

“The flowers draw the viewer deep inside them – almost literally. The viewer drinks in the colours and can almost smell the flowers, physically experiencing the flesh of the epidermis and following the curving forms of the receptacles, cups, and stamens…”

“Oberoi’s message is wholly personal, original, and universal. Regarding the question of to whom it is addressed, his art is aimed at all doorsteps.”

“Oberoi’s work is the transmission of incessant vibrations. He does not demand profound and total meditation, where the senses and the mind lie idle (yet should the viewer choose to experience the painting thus, all the better!). More commonly, contemplating his flowers is a more subtle affair, a consciousness-expanding ‘tuning’ of perception.”

“Constantly developing and augmenting themselves, Oberoi’s flowers embody the rhythm of combined grafting and developing wholeness; they are processional. In this sense of dynamic unity, the artist attempts to convey aspects of the universal concept of samsara – roughly translated as “that which flows together” – ultimately manifesting the universe in the context of Tantric cosmological notions.”

”Oberoi prioritizes concrete visionary directness and silence. He exercises an impeccable artistic skill while concentrating on an inner secret, which may only be revealed by means of a close and long look. The intensity of our experience gets deeper than the recognition of things in the environment. Oberoi expresses a vision of light and movement in the universe of his art.”

”A new realm of pictorial mysticism emanates from the growing centre of the flowers. This is not ordinary realism expressed with impeccable artistic skill; the rhythm of the natural forms and the shades of colours reveal an ideal world existing in the world of flowers.”

”Here then is a painter of feeling, whose strength, depth, and generosity are the measure of the fullness of his intact humanity.”

”Evidently this painter-poet has been grooming his spirit for long, in order that the truth of beauty dawn on it. His works of art testify to his deep search into the recesses of human experience. He is not satisfied with the passing and ephemeral but only the abiding… with those perennials which are above and beyond mankind’s muddy story on earth.”

”His art is an expression of a deeper relationship between himself and the world. The brevity of life is not only a challenge for him to live fully, but as well a striving for eternity through the craft of the creative imagination. His work is like a balm for both the outer and the inner eye. Oberoi is not a technician in a laboratory but a sort of seer in a sanctum. Like love, the impact of his imagined flowers touches the deeper chord in us. It ushers in harmony. Each moment becomes the first moment of creation. The sight of his wild flowers creates a moment in paradise.”

“Oberoi creates with the care and concern a parent would give a child.”

“His mastery of pastels is shown in his delicate layering of them – achieving vibrant depths in each image – and by the clarity of colors he achieves. Oberoi understands the subtleties and nuances of nature’s complete color spectrum. He can make seemingly contradictory colors work magnificently together. He can delve even deeper and draw warm and cool ranges from within each color, adding even richer variances to his paintings.”

“Dancing and glowing, pushing from the paper toward the viewer, Oberoi creates a special world with each piece. Like a space traveler coming back to earth, each piece delivers a complete, appealing image that, as the viewer draws closer, takes on new levels of clarity, like a series of ever-increasingly magnified images of a beautiful subject.”

“Oberoi’s art reaches through the eyes and gently intertwines itself within a viewer’s heart and mind, creating a harmonious and imaginative experience for those willing to open themselves to the possibilities he hopes to share.”

”Oberoi´s art mediates expressions of a search upward.”

“To see the world in new ways, to see the world in a thousand ways, is the task of Oberoi, is the task of the artist. To integrate the world, our wide world, our wild world, is his insoluble task.”

“There is no doubt that Oberoi emerges as a gifted, intense, and highly-charged painter.”

“Oberoi’s art can be interpreted as a new form of art that occupies the spiritual sense of the viewer and involves the viewer as an active participant in the art itself.”

“One of the legitimate roles of art is to enable men to bring the bits and pieces of life into ordered structures, signifying an awareness of the inherent internal scheme of things. On a higher plane, as a seer or prophet, Tarlochan Oberoi signifies and intensifies human awareness of order in things and in the universe. The universe, under his creative visions, becomes a highly structured and intricately formed environment for man and man becomes a unit in endlessly complex patterns—a form within glorious forms.”

“Oberoi’s pastels offer a sense of delightful stimulation to those of us not in a garden setting on a daily basis. He gets as close to the flower as he can before it becomes abstract, then pulls slightly back. The result is a scene inside a bloom mostly reserved for insects, gardeners, and photographers. The unusual cropping of the flower at its fullest is what makes his drawings different from most. Oberoi makes subtle changes that determine whether the final effect is dreamy and cloudy, or clear and bold. He delights in the warm colors of flora close to the equator and the cooler colors of blooms farther north.”

”Oberoi´s meticulous art features change of feeling in rhythm, from staccato to melodically continuous, which is interrelated with the forms.”

”Oberoi has created a new kind of visionary art. He gives space, structure and form... a novel slant.”

“Oberoi's works hold a warmth and promise that can usually only be found in nature. He takes such care to depict the flowers’ parts, their markings, their colors and textures. Even when slightly abstracted, they remind one of the miracle of creation. Even in his paintings of flowers seen in Iowa during the winter, he captures the whiteness with silvery embellishments, and seems to generate the beauty of the cold – where one might have forgotten there is any.”

“Oberoi’s artwork in pastels is as vibrant and expressive as his works written with each piece. Each pastel speaks of beauty and solace, giving the onlooker serenity in this crazy world. His art blooms inside me bringing an inner peace. Oberoi is able to show how differences exist in the world, from Iowa to India, North or South of the equator. The flowers he experiences around the world he is able to bring to other regions that will never experience that particular flora. Oberoi is as beautiful of a person as his artwork.”

Poetic Petals: Oberoi is a “Poetic Painter” and is respected for his talent to interject human beings with passion. As he has been continuously traveling the world, this master of fine arts continues to work towards his vision of instilling serene and a meditative coexistence through paintings. This is obvious in his more than 800 paintings. He has been presented internationally in many galleries and museums. Oberoi continues to combine the finest of Eastern and Western culture with a strong respect for tradition.