Having lived in Pakistan, India, and now Canada, South Asian artist Kiran Sainani feels her painting has been enriched by multiculturalism, helping her focus on experiences common to us all. "Grief, sorrow, joy, pain, and suffering are all felt by humans everywhere," she says. "They are core emotions that cross boundaries." To express this Sainani lays her human forms bare: solid and well-muscled, yet vulnerable and even perilously fragile. For her oils she tends to focus on a single color in a range of tones, an approach she uses to maximal effect in depicting the various ways in which light and shadow may fall on a single surface. The overall impression is much like that given off by the more muted work of Chagall.
Kiran Sainani's work has been displayed alongside the world-renowned artist Ali Imam, who spoke of her "profound technical ability and a considerable completeness of control and expression." In January 2008, she participated in an exhibition in Mumbai with M.F.Hussain, Akbar Padamsee and Suhas Roy. Sainani's paintings were published in the Times of India.