Original Paintings by Inma Sharii

BCN to Bollywood — A Cross-Cultural Art Collection

BCN to Bollywood is Inma Sharii’s cross-cultural painting collection inspired by Indian women, traditional clothing, jewelry, Mughal-style architectural details, Bollywood dance, Hindu dance, color, and spiritual memory. The collection reflects a journey from Barcelona to India, from artistic fascination to inner recognition, and from visible beauty to the deeper memory of the soul.

The collection opens with Woman in red saree, a work of profound introspection. With her eyes closed, the figure immerses herself in the search for essential answers. Stripped of ornamentation—save for a single ruby earring—she emerges from darkness without fear, sustained by the energy of red, a symbol of strength, life, and inner transformation.

In Rajput princess, time becomes a teacher. The work speaks of conscious waiting, of the patience required to avoid superficiality on the spiritual path. The figure embodies the resilience of one who understands that authenticity is not reached through haste, but through a slow descent into depth.

Lady of Amber represents the awakening of self-worth. Strong and serene, she sets boundaries and protects her heart. Her gesture and presence, enveloped in chromatic and ornamental richness, declare an essential truth: not everything is granted access to the sacred. Here, identity asserts itself, and the soul begins to guard its own temple.

With A Bollywood Dream, the artist confronts herself in her first self-portrait. A work built in layers, repainted through a process of acceptance. The figure embodies the duality between being and performance: the dancer who interprets, who shines, who inhabits the stage while integrating her light and shadow.

The Foreigner delves into the feeling of displacement—the experience of being foreign even within one’s own land. It is a quiet portrait of fragmented identity, of someone who finds no reflection in her surroundings.

In Sundar, calm becomes presence. The figure inhabits her center without the need to close her eyes: meditation transcends posture and becomes a state of being. It is the serene beauty of inner peace attained.

Look between bangles captures the intensity of authenticity. In a hyperrealistic language, the work reveals the power of dance and the force of a gaze when it expresses itself without filters, connected to essence.

Color and exuberance reach their peak in Siesta in Benarés, a cultural fusion that intertwines the Spanish tradition of the siesta with Indian aesthetics. The work celebrates excess as a language, detail as a universe.

In The Essence, the senses awaken. Aromas—clove, mustard, cayenne—become vehicles of memory and perception. Intuition sharpens and guides the passage toward more subtle states of consciousness

Window to the light is an act of faith. In the midst of darkness, the work reminds us that inner light, when firmly held, always opens pathways. It is an affirmation of hope in the face of adversity.

Ishvari embodies radical transformation: to be reborn from one’s own ashes, to bloom from the mud. Without witnesses or external recognition, the figure undergoes her evolution accompanied only by the symbolic—the peacock—reminding us that true growth is intimate and solitary.

In Breaking the veil, painting becomes revelation. The work suggests a fracture between dimensions: that of the soul, luminous and essential, and that of the material world, crossed by illusion and shadow. Art emerges here as a tool for awakening.

Mother earth marks a shift in perception: the planet ceases to be merely a setting and becomes a living organism within a universe teeming with life. The work calls for care, awareness, and connection with the whole.

Finally, Meditation for the Earth deepens the inherent duality of spiritual awakening. Light and darkness coexist, while the central figure—a universal mother—envelops and guides. The blue mantle evokes the cosmos; the white sari symbolizes purity of intention. The work suggests the presence of invisible forces that accompany and sustain human evolution.