Shergill Studio

Manjeet Shergill does colour-drenched canvases with old lines in different media and varying subjects.

One who considers Modigiilani's lines an inspiration and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha her bible. Manjeet Shargill's need to paint as therapy and her minimalist ways at her Chip Bee Gardens home studio have been well documented. Most of her work. now hangs ma white box gallery space just down the road.
These days, she is "overwhelmed" by her 18-month-old son but still finds time to paint as well as "curate" poetry readings, writing workshops and art fairs at her gallery - "I am happy to have my art be part of the designed space that most Singaporeans call home." She also holds weekend art classes, and teases and
shocks her students with the idea that anyone can draw and paint and the only thing you can't get in an art supply shop is originality,

Manjeet Shergill is a Singaporean who decided to follow her inner calling and joined St. Patrick’s Art Centre (now LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts) started by the late Brother Joseph McNally. Manjeet was among the first batch of art students to attend St. Patrick’s Art Centre. Having completed her course there, she continued studying art with various different artists.

Since leaving St. Patrick's, Manjeet has worked full time as an artist, gradually establishing a following of collectors and clientele, who regularly visit her studio. She began exhibiting her work in 1997, both in Singapore and abroad. Her Berlin exhibition in 1999 was well received. Shergill Studio was established in 1997 as an independent studio and gallery from which to paint and sell her work, and from where her paintings were regularly consigned to galleries in Berlin, Bangkok and London.

In Singapore, Manjeet’s paintings were exhibited in different art galleries, before Manjeet decided to exhibit exclusively at ShergillStudio.
In 2003, together with two other partners, a local lawyer and a German gallery owner, Manjeet established the Vermillion Group of Galleries, which was to become an important part of the developing Holland Village art hub.. Today Manjeet Shergill exhibits and sells her paintings, and runs her popular Creative Art Workshops.

Artist Statement
“My paintings are a reflection of my Singaporean background and my reaction to the Singaporean environment. I focus on colour and lines to create what I consider a Singaporean quality, essentially flat and lacking the depth of history. Most of my paintings lack detail, and this too is a reflection of how I perceive the Singaporean cultural and social landscape. However, the vibrancy of my cultural background is apparent in my work, which dovetails neatly with the other great influence in my paintings, French post-Impressionism and Fauvism. I like the influence of master painters like Matisse who was not a revolutionary but an innovator - he did not reject the pictorial tradition which had gone before, but instead studied it with humility and respect, he assimilated and reinvented it, adding his own personal view. My main themes are womanhood, expressed in simple and direct portraits,. and floral still-lives, with the plants plucked and contained.”