Rekha Rodwittiya

Tayi Arajakate: +short description

---

Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)

'''Rekha Rodwittiya''' (born 31 October 1958<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>) is a contemporary Indian artist associated with the [[Baroda Group|Baroda School]]. She is known for her [[narrative painting]]<nowiki/>s depicted through the style of [[surrealism]] and [[magical realism]]. She conducts an art studio in [[Vadodara]] called The Collective Studio, jointly with her husband and artist [[Surendran Nair]].

== Biography ==
Rekha was born on 31 October 1958, in the city of [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]].<ref name=":0" /> She grew up for the most part in the city of Baroda (later renamed to Vadodara), where her family moved to in 1967.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Rekha was the younger of two sisters and her parents were South India while she was looked after mostly by her mother as her father was an Indian air force pilot.<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

She joined the [[fine arts]] academy of the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]] in 1976, at a time when the city of witnessing the emergence of a hipster culture and the rise of a number of pre-eminent contemporary artists such as [[Bhupen Khakhar]], [[Gulam Mohammed Sheikh]] and [[Jyoti Bhatt]]''.''<ref name=":1" /> In 1977, she married a friend from Thailand who was a foreign student at the university and had a child in the following year named Mithun.<ref name=":2" /> Rodwittiya states that the marriage occurred with the expressed permission of her parents, and that she was diagnosed with infertility issues and recommended to conceive as soon as possible if she were to have a child.<ref name=":3">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The marriage broke down while she was pregnant which led to divorce and her becoming a single mother while still in college.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Following this, her parents began to take care of her son which allowed her to continue her education.<ref name=":2" />

In 1981, she graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in painting and was enrolled in the [[Master of Arts]] programme for an year. Following her graduation, Rodwittiya also began working at a private studio run by Jyoti Bhatt.<ref name=":1" /> During this period, Rodwittiya received a [[British Council]] fellowship to complete her [[Master of Fine Arts]] in painting at the [[Royal College of Art]], [[London]].<ref name=":2" /> Other than Bhatt, she was also mentored by the British artist [[Peter de Francia]] who was a professor at the Royal College and the Indian artist [[Nasreen Mohamedi]],<ref name=":1" /> widely considered as "India's greatest abstract artist" and who was a faculty at the MS University of Baroda.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2) The line of control|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/9rL8WWOanCRAf4GiI7sjBK/Art--The-line-of-control.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-24|website=[[Livemint]]|language=en}}</ref> By 1983, she begun working as a professional artist in Vadodara<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and married Surendran Nair in 1985, Nair was a close friend of hers and a peer artist.<ref name=":3" />

==References==

from Wikipedia - New pages [en] https://ift.tt/3pYB258
via IFTTT