I'm a full time artist who lives in the fascinating city of Hyderabad, India. I love to paint, journal and craft, shop for antiques and ephemera for especially baubles that i can integrate in to my art! I also teach art and journaling workshops to anyone from the age of 6 - 76 so, please contact me if you are in Hyderabad and would like to take a class!
I grew up in old Madras ( now called Chennai) , then a sleepyish city by the sea. I did my BFA in Fine Arts there and then moved to New York to study Graphic Design and Applied Arts at The Parsons school of Design. I worked in magazine publishing with Hearst for a year and then went on to running my own design studio. I moved back to India in 2003 a year after i got married and have been in Hyderabad ever since.
Hyderabad is a really fascinating place, it is a complete mixture of the old and new with both elements almost competing with each other. We have the concrete and steel spires of the modern city that exists alongside a bustling winding labyrinth of streets, homes,markets, businesses and stores that make up the old city.
The old city itself is a treasure trove for someone like me with its bazaars that offer everything from beads and baubles to pearl, gold and silver encrusted antique fabrics and clothing.
i started blogging a couple of years ago mainly to put up artwork that my young students had done in my art workshops. I teach art to batches of children in workshops that I thoroughly enjoy. I love the whole process of teaching someone how to create a beautiful piece of art from a blank page!
My method of teaching is structured on a combination of my Art history, Fine Arts and Graphic design degrees. I believe that exposure to history, culture and techniques used by artists through the centuries plays a huge role in broadening the students creative mind. My lessons are structured as far as organization and themes are concerned, but then I believe in giving the student freedom to execute the piece by themselves in an unrestricted way. My job is to educate and share techniques, methods and processes, and then I take a back seat and let the students take over.
That said, I would like and prefer to teach students who genuinely like to create, to draw or paint. I keep my classes small with a maximum of 4 young students per class so that I can spend quality time with each one. My individual sessions are 1:1 where I only have one child per class.
The reason I teach is because i genuinely enjoy the process of doing so, I like the sharing of my what ever I have learnt and I like the process of teaching my students to look at and interpret the world around from a more creative point of view. The idea is to provide an open studio, where learning, sharing and creating coexist joyfully together. My classes are more expensive than your usual visiting art teacher, but the lessons, teaching methodology and my involvement cannot be compared and the end results to the student are not the same!
I have been concentrating on my paintings and my journaling for the past year and have decided that its time I started giving something back to the community, so I'm going to be posting some simple art tutorials, write ups on things and people that inspire me, showcase supplies, interesting items that I come across that I use in my art and so on.
Thanks so much for reading !
I grew up in old Madras ( now called Chennai) , then a sleepyish city by the sea. I did my BFA in Fine Arts there and then moved to New York to study Graphic Design and Applied Arts at The Parsons school of Design. I worked in magazine publishing with Hearst for a year and then went on to running my own design studio. I moved back to India in 2003 a year after i got married and have been in Hyderabad ever since.
Hyderabad is a really fascinating place, it is a complete mixture of the old and new with both elements almost competing with each other. We have the concrete and steel spires of the modern city that exists alongside a bustling winding labyrinth of streets, homes,markets, businesses and stores that make up the old city.
The old city itself is a treasure trove for someone like me with its bazaars that offer everything from beads and baubles to pearl, gold and silver encrusted antique fabrics and clothing.
i started blogging a couple of years ago mainly to put up artwork that my young students had done in my art workshops. I teach art to batches of children in workshops that I thoroughly enjoy. I love the whole process of teaching someone how to create a beautiful piece of art from a blank page!
My method of teaching is structured on a combination of my Art history, Fine Arts and Graphic design degrees. I believe that exposure to history, culture and techniques used by artists through the centuries plays a huge role in broadening the students creative mind. My lessons are structured as far as organization and themes are concerned, but then I believe in giving the student freedom to execute the piece by themselves in an unrestricted way. My job is to educate and share techniques, methods and processes, and then I take a back seat and let the students take over.
That said, I would like and prefer to teach students who genuinely like to create, to draw or paint. I keep my classes small with a maximum of 4 young students per class so that I can spend quality time with each one. My individual sessions are 1:1 where I only have one child per class.
The reason I teach is because i genuinely enjoy the process of doing so, I like the sharing of my what ever I have learnt and I like the process of teaching my students to look at and interpret the world around from a more creative point of view. The idea is to provide an open studio, where learning, sharing and creating coexist joyfully together. My classes are more expensive than your usual visiting art teacher, but the lessons, teaching methodology and my involvement cannot be compared and the end results to the student are not the same!
I have been concentrating on my paintings and my journaling for the past year and have decided that its time I started giving something back to the community, so I'm going to be posting some simple art tutorials, write ups on things and people that inspire me, showcase supplies, interesting items that I come across that I use in my art and so on.
Thanks so much for reading !
