Nirmal Dhiman is a uk based artist, illustrator and designer who works on award winning interactive design and websites, illustration projects, animation/motion graphics, photography, typography and design for print, vector/bitmap image making and typeface design.

In 1996, I found an unused diary from 1969. In it, I started to make a drawing a day, a process which evolved into a drawing about the day. I have since been working on this project for the past ten years.

Stories and narratives form and interweave with dreams and real life events. Spatial relationships, proximities and time lines attempt to hide/reveal what happened that day. Colours, tones, lines and words describe the moment.

Intense moments are captured, banal ones too. Sometimes these past events echo and manifest themselves again in future entries. Often parts of yesterdays entry come through the paper and become intrinsic to the next days work.

Every entry is complete in itself and is usually made using watercolour, inks, pencils, collage or relevant media from that day, poetry, prose and even parking tickets.

Working in the diaries has helped me to explore my place in the world as well as perceptions and representations of the things and events that I see. It has allowed me to explore my place in the world as well as perceptions and representations of the things and events that are around me. It has allowed me to reflect of living in England, learn my (Punjabi) background and look at where I am heading. The project has grown into a daily requirement and developed in to a personal archive of moments, meta-content and ideas, it has become core basis of all my personal work.

I have recently travelled to India on several occasions, where I eventually had an arranged marriage. With all the ceremonies and traditions there are new things that I have learnt and seen, I am finding that these experiences are slowly filtering in to my work and are adding a different dimension to my understanding of the world.

Related projects include alternative versions/derived works made using the usual hands on diary entry approach or by scanned/computer-generated methods which then can be produced as non-book individual artworks/prints.

ArtWanted.com Gallery:   Fine Art
Proficient Software:   photoshop, flash, illustrator, dreamweaver