ABOUT
Bio
Vaishali Rastogi Sahni is a contemporary artist and paper sculptor from Meerut, India. She takes a radical approach to paper as a medium, using it to explore her journey toward inner equilibrium, transformation, and spiritual resonance.
Her three-dimensional quilling technique gives rise to intricate sculptural forms that examine the emotional, architectural, and sacred dimensions of the inner self. Through vibrant colour, layered depth, and meticulous detail, she creates works that feel both intimate and monumental.
Her sculptures have been shown with leading galleries and are part of private collections in India and abroad. Her work has also been featured in major publications including The Indian Express, The Hindu, and other national media.
Through her practice, she seeks to develop a visual language that channels higher states of spiritual energy, inviting the viewer into a shared space of contemplation and connection.
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Artistic Statement
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My work begins with the belief that the inner world holds both the primal and the sacred. I explore this tension through symbolic structures: animal heads, temple fragments, vertical tilak forms, and rising sanctum-like spines. These motifs become vessels through which I look at identity, memory, instinct, and transformation.
I am interested in what lies beneath the surface, those hidden echoes that shape us long before we name them. By distilling forms into essential lines, colours, and layered structures, I search for clarity within complexity, silence within chaos, and emergence within shadow.
My newer abstract works draw from the geometry of temples, the language of devotion, and the architecture of inner experience. They are not representations, but thresholds, points where the seen and unseen meet.
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Process​
Each work is constructed slowly and meditatively by hand. I use quilling, layered paper cylinders, beads, and sculptural arrangements to build depth and shadow. The repetition of form becomes a ritual in itself—allowing the artwork to emerge over time rather than being imposed.The surfaces I create hold both precision and vulnerability. The layered paper acts like an internal architecture, while colour becomes a carrier of emotional temperature. Whether figurative or abstract, each piece evolves through stages of instinct, refinement, and surrender.This process allows me to build works that feel alive—breathing with tension, stillness, and an inner pull toward transformation.


