Anjolie Ela Menon
Born in Bengal, a renowned Indian Painter and muralist known best for her religious themed works. Her nudes incorporate a vibrant colour pallette and are rendered in a variety of styles ranging from cubism to techniques that invoke artists of the European Renaissance.
Mixed media
8″ X 10″
Arpana Caur
Born in New Delhi, her works extends the ground broken by Amrita Sher-Gil. Feminine and feminist in perspective, it places images of women in a contemporary urban context.
GAUCHE and PASTEL
Sohni Mahiwal
18″ X 24″
GAUCHE CHAKRA on Paper
18″ X 24″
Bose Krishnamachari
Hailing from Kerala, an artist and curator whose artistic practices include bold abstract paintings, figurative drawings, sculpture, photography and multimedia installations.
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Acrylic on canvas
24″ X 24″
Girija Hariharan
A self-taught artist from Bangalore, she is known for her large wall murals. Her artworks are metaphorical and poetic and explore figures, texture and colour while endowing a sense of discovery within the viewer.
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“Generations”
Acrylic on wood
24″ X 16″
Gurudas Shenoy
Karnataka-born, he is inspired by his travels, expressing his fascination of place and surroundings through his art. His fondness of water colours has created a deft lightness in his oil paintings. He has also worked extensively on murals.
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“Europe Studio”
Oil on canvas
18″ X 24″
Jayakumar Reddy
Bangalore-born and educated at the Royal College of Arts, he has taught art at prestigious establishments including the Falmouth School of Art U.K., the Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy and is currently Professor of Visual Art at Bangalore University.
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Ink on paper
16″ X 23″
J M S Mani
Born in Karnataka, his art is an amalgamation of Indian culture with Occidental Western formalism. Mani depicts his characters in a simple and uncluttered manner and they evoke hidden tales.
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Charcoal on Paper
11″ X 16″
K K Hebbar
Born in Kattingeri near Udipi, he is one of India’s most celebrated artists. Hebbar’s idiom is a unique combination of impressionistic and expressionistic techniques. He always believed that an artist’s role was to tell the truth about his feelings without any dilution.
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Limited Edition Print
14″ X 17″
K M Adimoolam
Born in Tamil Nadu, the artist has a natural aptitude for sketching portraits. His canvasses mirror his mind’s journey through Nature and his colours create an esoteric aura on a transcendental level.
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Oil on canvas
36″ X 36″
Lakshmi Madhavan
A Mumbai resident, she is mostly an installation artist. Her oeuvre explores the interplay of phenomena and meaning in the interaction between organisms, objects and their environments. Her work attempts to transform and infuse these everyday interactions with new perspectives.
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“The Matter Jigsaw”
12″ X 12″
Laxman Aelay
Born in Andhra Pradesh, and known for his nostalgic paintings depicting his childhood. The poverty stricken lives of village folk inspire his bold figurative work. His most recognisable works are his black and white compositions against brightly coloured backgrounds.
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“konurayya”
Acrylic on Canvas
8.5″ X 11.5″
M G Doddamani
Born in Karnataka, Doddamani is essentially a figurative artist. His portraits contain a removed austerity, resulting in an ethereal countenance. Enchanted by the sublimity of Buddha and his teachings illustrating the surrendering of all human desires, the artist seeks to negotiate his humanness through his paintings.
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“The Golden Light”
Acrylic on Canvas
14″ X 24″
Paresh Hazra
Kolkata-born Hazra is a story-teller on canvas. His work is reminiscent of bygone Indian artists, minutely detailed, lavishly painted and textured. He produces colors and textures from natural ingredients using egg tempera and natural pigments and dyes.
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“Krishna”
Old Egg Tempera on canvas
20″ X 24″
Radhika Varma
Bangalore based Radhika’s works are contemporary in execution, content and visual appeal while reflecting her traditional moorings, of being the great great grand daughter of Raja Ravi Varma. Her works are a celebration of women as she indulges in a play with a parrot or amidst lotus blossoms.
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“Are you There”
Oil on Canvas
16″ X 20″
Rajesh Baderia
Born in Jabalpur, his works invoke the power of colours by creating abstractions infused with ancient symbols and forms. His works are express of sublime spiritualism and mysticism.
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Acrylic on canvas
30″ X 30″
Ramesh Terdal
Born in Karnataka, his art is minimalistic, at once abstract yet identifiable. Human figures, animals, fish appear in his paintings, as if they have been made visible after the surface has been scratched.
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Acrylic on Canvas
21″ X 32″
Rekha Rao
Born in Mumbai, Rekha Rao is a colourist whose mixed media works combine oil and acrylic medium. Kaveri Ponnapa described her works as ‘often half told tale, elusive, sometimes enigmatic… colours lend her works a particular depth and luminosity, and elevate them into the world of metaphor’.
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Oil & Acrylic on canvas
30″ X 30″
S G Vasudev
Born in Mysore, Vasudev is the founder of the Cholamandal Artists Village and a distinguished proponent of the Madras Art Movement. He is recognised for his Vriksha Tree of Life series. His trees evolved into faces in the series titled Humanscapes and Earthscapes.
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“She &Tree”
Oil on Canvas
39″ X 27″
Shan Re
From Bangalore and a contemporary modernist, her works create a revitalising sense of peace, stability and an escape into colour.
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Acrylic on canvas
25″ X 29″
Sudip Roy
Born in West Bengal, his art revolves around themes inspired by everyday life. Using a distinct palette, his styled compositions turn inanimate objects into sensuous visuals. His works study people, historical architectural facades and temples, as well as explore abstract imagery.
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Water Colour
19″ X 8.5″
Sujata Bajaj
She studied at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts and now lives in Paris where she is an artist of international acclaim, merging French and Indian influence in her paintings. Her works adulate Ganpati! She has painted, etched and sculpted him for decades with abundant de joie expression.
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Mixed media on paper
12″ X 16″
Thota Tharini
Born in Chennai, the artist has worked as a Production Designer in the Art Department of various films. His works are generally non figurative and very colourful. He has also experimented with calligraphy as a form of creative expression.
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Oil on Canvas
36″ X 48″
Vinod Banaik
Inspired by living amidst the natural beauty of Assamese tea plantations, she started painting mythological themes. Her psychic affinity connected her to universal cosmic energy. The aura and colours that emerge in her paintings portray this deep connection to the galaxies and their symbols.
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“Nirvana”
Acrylic on Canvas
36″ X 48″
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