Arts, Culture & Everything In Between: Bright Colours From Sabia's World

This lovely oil-on-canvas above, a triptych, is by New Delhi-based artist, Sabia. In the picture, she is seen with our common friend, artist Rahim Mirza.
I had gone to meet Rahim at India Habitat Centre the other afternoon. We met outside the Visual Arts Gallery. I had no plans to walk in to the gallery just then, a little later, perhaps, to check out any show that may be running there. But with a particularly muggy day, I was more interested in heading towards our lunch destination, Eatopia.
Just then, the corner of my eye caught a blaze of colours at the far end of the gallery. It was this canvas, at the opposite end, that forced me to stop. And then, Rahim told me about Sabia and her show.
We returned soon after lunch to let Rahim introduce me to the artist and the fabulous colours and people of her world, whom she transports beautifully on her canvas. I'm pasting below some truly stunning works by Sabia (she goes by the mononym) and let those do the talking about their creator.
Basic details: Sabia paints in oil, is a free-willed, independent thinking painter who learnt early on that she would rather focus on painting than trying to be in good books of the movers and shakers of Delhi's art world, most of her shows are sold out (obviously!), wears her Chandni Chowk upbringing with pride, and gives it life on her canvases too. Her "Ghalib" series, especially, is a veritable trip to the undisturbed bylanes of old Delhi.
Check out her works below.
I also wrote a review of the show for Blouin Artinfo, which you can read here.