Event Title
Artist 1
Trupti Pandya; the founder of Serving Hearts is formally trained as a psychologist & hypnotherapist.
She is a community weaver ;through her initiative HeArt Circles she brings people together to immerse in the power of creativity -through songs, stories, play, clay, visual art or the whispers of nature.
Trupti’s work domain & underlying philosophy aligned so well with the ethos of Gulmohar. It is really gratifying to support her journey where art takes more meaningful and more responsible role socially.
Artist 2
Padmaja.C.: runs a textile arts & print studio in Brooklyn,USA. Trained in printmaking from New York Fashion Institute, she leads hands-on art workshops and introductory courses in surface design.Apart from commercial design projects, practicing Japnese Shibori for over a decade, she creates bespoke, one-of-a-kind scarves & clothing in natural fibres with eco-friendly dyes & pigments.
Padmaja’s skill palette is vast and her keenness to learn new skills make her an ardent learner.It was a delight to witness her enthusiasm to share her ideas & skills with others during our interactive sessions. She conducted a two day workshop on cyanotype (on textiles) and one day workshop on Sashiko: Japanese darning technique. Apart from doing workshops she also did a small commissioned job for one of our client projects@Gulmohar.
Artist 3
Rinni is a young artist and aspiring writer whose work and practice is deeply roote in the belief that creativity is a potent tool to the progress of society.She’s a graduate of Painting from Delhi college of Art and studied Painting and Expanded Media from University of Hyderabad.
Her visual art practice is ushered by the love of learning different mediums and the writings of children from Palestine. Through the paper, paint & print, she seeks the quiet melody of peace-art as resistance, art as hope.
While reading & researching about the numerous voices for and from Palestine, she’s also working on a series of prints as she’s learning printmaking at the Chhaap printmaking studio.
