About Lalit Mohan
Lalit Mohan’s practice explores the intersection of memory, architecture, machinery, and lived experience through abstraction. His paintings construct layered visual spaces where industrial structures, architectural forms, and fragments of personal memory converge. Rather than depicting the visible world, his work investigates how experience is remembered, reconstructed, and transformed over time.
Before dedicating himself to art, Lalit spent two decades as a marine engineer—an experience that continues to shape his visual language. Machinery, engineering processes, steel structures, and technical drawings recur throughout his work, not as documentary images, but as abstract forms that evoke labour, resilience, and the passage of time.
More recently, his practice has expanded to explore architectural memory and cultural landscapes. Inspired by his residency in Nepal, these paintings bring together engineered forms and remembered spaces, balancing structural precision with intuitive mark-making to examine the relationship between place, memory, and identity.
From Engineering to Art
Lalit Mohan’s engineering career instilled a deep appreciation for precision, discipline, systems thinking, and structure. Over time, however, painting became the language through which he began exploring memory, emotion, and identity.
A self-taught contemporary artist, Lalit eventually chose to dedicate himself fully to art. His practice has evolved through exhibitions, international artist residencies, and continuous experimentation with abstraction, where industrial structures, architecture, and personal experience merge into layered visual narratives.
Today, his paintings bring together the discipline of engineering and the freedom of artistic intuition, transforming lived experience into contemporary abstract works that explore memory, place, and human experience.
