Ticket - Painting Workshop: Miniature Art Inspired Botanicals - Divya Pamnani - April 13
About the Event
A painting workshop led by artist Divya Pamnani that ties in with our ongoing exhibition, Off Margins, showcasing 8 artists and their unique interpretation of a traditional art form.
Explore the intricacy of painting a botanical composition, inspired by the miniature painting tradition.
Learn to paint using a qalam (squirrel hair brush), and stone pigments on wasli (a type of handmade paper specifically used for painting miniatures).
Prior painting experience is not essential, but enthusiasm to create is.
All materials for the workshop will be provided.
Duration: 2 hours
You can select your preferred time slot for the workshop:
Session One: 11 am to 1 pm;
Session Two: 2 pm - 4 pm
About the Facilitator
Divya Pamnani (b.1983) is an artist based in Bombay practicing a syncretic form of visual story-telling drawn from traditional art forms of India, inspired by a love for playful and intricate pattern making.
Divya has studied Psychology for her undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Austin (2007) and has a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2011); she lived in the United States until 2014 and worked in the non-profit sector until she decided to pursue a full-time studio practice in 2020.
Divya spent a summer at the New York Academy of Art and Design in 2018, where she explored paths to abstraction under Peter Bonner, and developed a drawing practice with Samuel Adoquei. She has done a Post Graduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics (2019) and coursework in The Art of the Book in South Asia (2021) at Jnanapravaha, a Theory Art Education Institute in Bombay. Concurrently in 2019, she pursued training in the Indian Miniature painting technique from Master Artist Mahaveer Swami in Rajasthan, a proponent of the Bikaner School of painting.
During her time training, she got to witness first stand the studio practice of a traditional Master Artist, how he prepares brushes, pigments and surfaces, reminiscent of the Mughal and Rajput painting ateliers she studied about in her coursework in The Art of the Book. All the self-sought course-work, academic and technical, have helped her hone in on the practice of Miniature Painting, as a foundation for developing a unique visual vocabulary. For the last 3 years, Divya has been focussed on just that, developing a visual language by building on the rich legacy of miniature paintings.
She is a professional scuba diver and the aura of the deep blue beyond often informs her subject and colour palette.
