The KalaCUBE Journal
Where handmade art meets its story
Feature stories on India’s artists — from the community that grew around Musée Art Café, Dehradun. In a world of AI, the artist’s hand still prevails.
AI and the Future of Human Art
Why original, human-made art matters more than ever — and what it means to be an artist in the age of the algorithm.
Read the essay →Art Styles & Guides
15 guides to India’s art forms
The Performing Arts of India: Dance, Music & Theatre
An overview of India's performing arts — the breadth of its dance, music and theatre, why they matter, and how KalaCUBE showcases performers.
Read the guide →Visual Art in India: Painting, Drawing & Beyond
An overview of visual art in India — its breadth from folk painting to contemporary practice, why it matters, and how KalaCUBE showcases its artists.
Read the guide →Handicraft in India: The Living Tradition of the Hand
An overview of handicraft in India — its vast breadth of textiles, pottery, metal, wood and more, why it matters, and how KalaCUBE showcases the makers.
Read the guide →Kalighat Painting: Kolkata's Bold Bazaar Art
A guide to Kalighat painting — the fast, bold watercolour bazaar art born near Kolkata's Kali Temple, its subjects, style, and lasting influence.
Read the guide →Kerala Mural Painting: Temple Art in Living Colour
A guide to Kerala mural painting — the temple and palace wall art of South India, its natural five-colour palette, sacred themes, and enduring style.
Read the guide →Mandala Art: Sacred Geometry and Modern Meditative Practice
A warm, accurate guide to mandala art — its meaning as sacred geometry in Hindu and Buddhist tradition, its symbolism, and its modern life as a meditative creative practice.
Read the guide →Indian Miniature Painting: From Mughal Courts to Rajput Havelis
An accurate, warm overview of Indian miniature painting, tracing the Mughal and Rajput schools, their fine brushwork and mineral pigments, and why the tradition still enchants.
Read the guide →Phad Painting: Rajasthan's Scroll Epics
A warm, accurate guide to Phad painting, the narrative scroll art of Rajasthan performed by Bhopa priest-singers, with its folk deities, natural pigments, and living tradition.
Read the guide →Tanjore Painting: South India's Gilded Devotional Art
An encyclopedic yet warm introduction to Tanjore painting, the gold-leaf devotional art of Tamil Nadu, covering its origins, gesso relief, gem inlay, and enduring appeal.
Read the guide →Kalamkari: The Pen-Craft of Andhra & Telangana
A warm, accurate guide to Kalamkari, the hand-painted and block-printed textile art of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, with its natural dyes, sacred themes, and living legacy.
Read the guide →Pattachitra: Odisha & Bengal's Scroll-Painting Heritage
A warm, accurate guide to Pattachitra scroll painting from Odisha and Bengal: its temple origins, cloth-based materials, mythological motifs, and living legacy.
Read the guide →Gond Art: The Vivid Storytelling of Central India
A warm, accurate guide to Gond art from central India: its tribal origins, natural materials, dot-and-line detailing, nature motifs, and why it thrives today.
Read the guide →Pichwai Painting: Devotional Art of Nathdwara
A careful, warm guide to Pichwai painting from Nathdwara in Rajasthan: its devotional origins, cloth-and-mineral materials, Krishna motifs, and lasting appeal.
Read the guide →Warli Painting: The Tribal Art of Maharashtra
An accurate, warm introduction to Warli tribal painting from Maharashtra: its origins, mud-and-rice materials, geometric figures, and enduring appeal today.
Read the guide →Madhubani Art: India's Ancient Folk Painting Tradition
A warm, accurate guide to Madhubani (Mithila) painting from Bihar: its origins, natural materials, signature motifs, and why this folk tradition still thrives today.
Read the guide →Artist Features
80 stories · fresh from the studio

Manpreet Kaur
Let's begin with a little joy!
Manpreet Kaur is an artist and mother based in Dehradun, working in the visual-art tradition from her own studio space. "My medium is photography and painting," she writes, and her invitation is as warm as it i
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Jaikriti Sinh Jadeja
Abstract Art, Landscape, Sketch-art
Jaikriti Jadeja is a visual artist whose practice is, by her own account, a refuge. "Being a lawyer by profession, I seek solace in art," she writes. "Indulging myself in art brings respite from the chaotic hum
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Tewary Aditya Uttpal
Realistic Sketch Artist
From Patna, Bihar, Tewary Aditya Uttpal is a self-taught realistic portrait and figurative artist who has been drawing since 2019. Working in graphite, charcoal, and mixed media, he builds his images out of pat
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Chahat Soneja
Crafting surreal worlds that ignite wonder and inspire curiosity
Chahat Soneja is a digital artist from Gurgaon whose work builds surreal worlds out of vibrant colour and deliberately distorted perspective. I create portals to awe, she says and across her collection, that is
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Riya Joshi
Turning Memories Into Timeless Art. Handmade with love and perfection.
From Dehradun, Riya Joshi makes visual art that moves fluidly between the emotional and the mythic. A specialist in graphite and acrylic, she describes her mission simply turning memories into timeless art and
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Vasudha Ahuja
Art is the most divine form of self-expression that has ever existed
From Dehradun, Vasudha Ahuja runs a venture driven by passion, working across both visual art and handicraft. Her endeavour, in her own words, is "to add a touch of aesthetics to our customers' lives" — creatin
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Manasvi Aggarwal
Do what is made for you!
Manasvi Aggarwal is an artist from Uttarakhand who describes her practice simply: finding joy in this world through colour, trying new techniques and new styles as she goes. That openness gives her work a wonde
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Srishti Muyal
Be creative with shree
Srishti Muyal is a self-taught artist for whom, as she says, art is in her bones. Warm and generous by nature, she invites beginners and anyone with a craze for art to reach out a reminder that her practice is
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Rashmi Naithani
All art is but an imitation of nature!
Rashmi Naithani is a painter based in Dehradun, working in the visual-art tradition with a naturalist's eye. "I was always drawn to nature and people," she writes, "and therefore my paintings mostly reflect tha
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Manisha Manik
A small piece of art can definitely bring the change
From Haryana, Manisha Manik is a self-taught maker who works across handicraft and visual art with a clear conscience behind every piece. Her practice is rooted in sustainable fashion — a movement that aims to
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Shraddha Bahukhandi
I found myself when I was lost in Art!
Shraddha Bahukhandi describes herself as an artist at heart and a professor, architect, and urban planner by profession. Based in Uttarakhand, she found her way back to painting during the lockdown — "little di
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Preeti Gautam
Predict you emotion with color
Preeti Gautam is a visual artist from Uttarakhand whose landscapes turn to natural scenery mountains, forests, rivers, cliffs, trees and moonlight alongside minimalist and playful pieces. Under the line predict
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Rhythm
Handmade with love
Rhythm calls herself a hospitality aspirant for whom painting is a passion, and who writes when the heart allows her to pen down her emotions and set them free. Her studio, Paints and Pastels, is a dream come t
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Megha Kathuria
Work of Realism
Megha Kathuria describes herself as an observer and admirer of nature and life, and that watchfulness gives her realism its depth. Her paintings, she says, serve as a portal of transformation for the viewer wor
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The Portray
Figure-ing Out
The Portray works in a language all its own — a drawing style called "Scribbling" that links a childhood passion to adult imagination, describing thoughts through scribbled lines rather than words. The result i
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Saloni Rana
A fresh art for fresh start
Saloni Rana is a painter from Uttarakhand whose work draws on a lineage of Indian folk and decorative art, offering, in the spirit of her own tagline, a fresh art for a fresh start. Rather than explain herself
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Pushpanjali Gupta
The magical world of passion
Working from her home in Uttarakhand, Pushpanjali Gupta is a visual artist whose paintings carry the unmistakable traces of a human hand — patience, deliberate technique, and direct observation rather than anyt
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Nayna Tuli
"Art is a form of meditation for me that gives me so much peace and happiness."
Nayna Tuli came to painting by an unexpected route. From Gurgaon, she studied engineering with a business degree in technology, began painting as a hobby, and then decided to pursue it professionally. For her,
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Smriti Rana
do what you love
Smriti Rana works across both visual art and handicraft, and for her art has always been a way to grow something, she says, that keeps her soul in harmony. That lived, personal charge is the through-line of a p
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Sahil Saxena
The places won't remember me, but I'll remember them through my photographs.
Sahil Saxena calls himself "your friendly neighborhood photographer," working under a line that doubles as a philosophy: "The places won't remember me, but I'll remember them through my photographs." His practi
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Garima Singh
Thriving on passion, never on perfection.
Garima Singh is a self-taught abstract painter based in Uttarakhand, working in the visual-art tradition with a restlessly hands-on approach. "My work majorly reflects abstract painting style using mediums like
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Saumya Juyal
I do loads of art
Saumya Juyal is a visual artist based in Uttarakhand whose enthusiasm needs no elaborate framing. "I just love paints... colours... I just make stuff," she writes, under a line that sums up her output plainly:
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Snehalata Goyal
Hand-Knitted clothes with love
Warmth, One Loop at a Time Snehalata Goyal runs a small business in Dehradun, a valley-city cradled in the lap of the Himalayas, specialising in hand-knitted and crocheted woollen clothes. Working exclusively b
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Mrinal Das
From Uttarakhand, Mrinal Das works almost exclusively in graphite and charcoal, building detailed hand-drawn sketches through patient observation in an age flooded with synthetic imagery. He offers no elaborate
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Nishtha Berry
making art to make the world a more beautiful place ⛅️
Nishtha Berry is a young painter from Dehradun working in the visual-art tradition. "I'm Nishtha, a 21 year old artist," she writes, "finding fun, love, and beauty in life and recreating it on canvas." Her hope
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Kritika Mundepi is one of the artists championed by Musée Living, working in India across a range of mediums. Her practice is described as playful, tactile, and unmistakably human — art you sense was shaped by
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Arti Suri
Let's paint the world with colors.
Arti Suri paints from Uttarakhand, where the mountains are never far from view — and never far from her canvases. "I am an artist who likes to express feelings, thoughts, opinions on canvas," she says, and it s
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Sahiba Sharma
Crafting Souvenirs
Based in Uttarakhand, Sahiba Sharma works at the meeting point of handicraft and visual art. Her label, Arte by Sahiba, is a journey with a purpose: to showcase unique handmade products created through the coll
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Deepti Gupta
Deepti Gupta is a Dehradun-based artist carrying one of India s most storied folk traditions into contemporary spaces. With a keen, self-described passion for art and craft, she focuses on paintings that span m
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marlyn bedi
Life lesson: Don't look at your work for too long, lol.
Born in Doon, Marlyn Bedi carries the mountains with her — by her own account, a large part of who she is comes from her love of them. She is a visual artist who paints with watercolours, and she describes her
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Shreyans Bajaj
Passion is the horn that makes a hardworkinv horse the Unicorn.
Shreyans Bajaj works from Delhi as what he calls "a self taught natural artist" — someone who paints, writes, photographs and explores in equal measure. His guiding belief is disarmingly simple: art is a lifest
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Sonali Tomar
A Walk Under The Creative Arch Of Dreams,Thoughts and Poetry Through Art
An architect by profession and an artist at heart, Sonali Tomar works out of Uttarakhand and sees the world, in her own words, as a colourful canvas. Her visual art carries the unhurried, human quality of a pra
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Gautam Munka
A Gautam Munka Project
Gautam Munka is an engineer turned artist, and by his own account art and passion have always been one and the same a pursuit that sometimes lets him sleep in peace and sometimes keeps him awake until the work
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Megha Sulaiya
Do what makes you feel alive.
Megha Sulaiya has noticed art all around her since childhood, always enjoying painting and sketching whatever came to mind. Based in Delhi, she works across various mediums and moves fluidly between subjects an
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Jyo Arora
Test 123
Jyo Arora is a visual artist with a storyteller s instinct her own description of her practice is simply storytelling. Working across various mediums, she offers no lengthy manifesto and no curated backstory, c
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Archita Rauthan
You have got to rain to be the rainbow 🌈 .
Archita Rauthan is a self-taught visual artist from Uttarakhand who describes her practice simply: "playing with colours and thoughts are my favourite thing." She works her brush across different mediums and le
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Sai Gurung
Sai Gurung is an artist whose practice resists easy categorization. Rather than settling into a single signature look, Gurung works with a restless curiosity, willing to explore different approaches and let the
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Divyarjun Rautela
drawing people together
Divyarjun Rautela is a young architect by profession and an artist by passion, working from Uttarakhand and always looking for the art hidden inside ordinary things. Having recently started up his own workshop,
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Visual Indulgence
Tripti Kharkwal is an engineering graduate from Uttarakhand who found her true calling in painting. Under the banner "Visual Indulgence," she draws inspiration from nature, scientific existence, emotions, and c
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Shivani Pundir
Art is expressing tradition in a mordern manner.
Shivani Pundir is a painter from Dehradun who describes her work as the intersection of modern and traditional art forms a way, as she puts it, of expressing tradition in a modern manner. Working largely in acr
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Lakshya Bisht
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achives it in nothing
Lakshya Bisht is a sketch artist from Dehradun who works in graphite and charcoal — mediums that reward patience above all else. His drawings are built up line by line and shade by shade, through the deliberate
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Kepika Thapa
Nothing is lost, said the creative mind ❤️
Kepika Thapa is a visual artist from Uttarakhand who follows her curiosity across mediums rather than committing to a single one. Her own shorthand lists them: "Watercolors | Acrylics | Digital Art | Nature Pho
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Nilanjana Dutta
Be a part of my Dream
Nilanjana Dutta is a craft artist working from Dehradun, Uttarakhand, whose practice lives in the warm, tactile world of block printing. From home decor to clothing and beyond, she builds her pieces slowly and
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Tees to dye for
Anubhav Caleb is a Uttarakhand-based maker whose craft began with a simple lockdown experiment. During the pandemic he started playing with tie-dye on tees mixing patterns and colours, sharing the results on In
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Ishtha Kapoor
draw!
Ishtha Kapoor draws from Dehradun with the openness of someone who refuses to be boxed in. A self-taught artist and illustrator, she describes herself as having no particular bias towards a single "style" — ins
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A art that you won't find easily
Shashank Goel is a handicraft artist based in Mussoorie with an unusual and admirable practice: he makes art out of what the rest of us throw away. "I am a recycling artist," he writes. "I create things from th
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Meenakshi Garg
Creativity on paper evolving emotions and thoughts.
Meenakshi Garg makes work rooted in a simple conviction: "Creativity on paper evolving emotions and thoughts is the strength of our work." Her pieces lean on the interplay of white and black — colours she reads
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Prateek Gurung
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everydays life
Prateek Gurung paints from Dehradun, where art has been a companion since childhood. A hospitality student by day and a self-taught artist by instinct, he treats painting as a kind of meditation — something tha
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Geetanjali dhiman
I am An Artist without 'ist'.
Craft with meaning, one letter at a time Geetanjali Dhiman is a Dehradun-based calligraphy artist and hand-crafted gift maker whose practice sits right where visual art meets handicraft. "Lockdown has gifted me
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Kamal Thapa
Kamal Thapa is a self-taught drawing artist from Uttarakhand who loves to draw portraits and other work by hand. His is a slow, deliberate practice — the kind that trusts instinct over formula and lets each dra
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Adding Aesthetics......
Komal Bothra paints from Uttarakhand under a fitting banner — "Adding Aesthetics." Working by hand across a range of mediums, she moves fluidly between spiritual and expressive subjects, letting each canvas car
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Vinita Chand
Art by Vinita Chand
Vinita Chand is a Dehradun-based artist drawn to the texture of everyday life. "I am an artist, influenced by cityscapes, nature, people, fashion, food, and lifestyle," she says, and her work in ink and colour
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Sahil Faraz
Open your flying_retina
Based in Ontario, Canada, Sahil Faraz is a visual artist working through the lens of the camera. He puts his approach in a single, memorable line: "I don't click photos, I put my memories on digital ink." Under
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Vandana Chauhan
Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness.
Follow your inner moonlight, don t hide the madness is more than a tagline for Vandana Chauhan it is a working method. A graduate of Graphic Era University and a self-taught artist, she loves drawing quirky thi
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Sangita Verma
Creativity is intelligence having fun with colors, clay, mud & mirrors.
Sangita Verma is a Dehradun-based visual artist whose path into art grew out of a life in teaching. "A teacher's journey represents lifelong commitment to learning," she writes. "My expedition as an artist comm
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Surekha Gandhi
Let there be Art...
Surekha Gandhi is a Dehradun-based visual artist for whom painting is second nature. "Painting is not new to me," she writes. "I love to splash colours in various forms — water colour, oil colour, acrylic and p
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Prerna Joshi
Painting is a beautiful way to get out of your head and listen to your soul
From Uttarakhand, Prerna Joshi has been on her painting journey since 2016. She works across different mediums, but gouache is her first love — and it shows in the way she paints, as she puts it, "beautiful gre
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Ankita Gupta
Made with zero waste, environmentally friendly, sustainable, plastic free fabric. Made in India.
Ankita Gupta works in macramé, and she speaks about the craft with real affection: "Macramé is featherweight and weightless, a pared-down piece of art created from simpler forms." Inspired by that simple beauty
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Sheetal Arora
When your passion becomes your profession, work becomes your hobby.
When your passion becomes your profession, Sheetal Arora likes to say, work becomes your hobby. It is a line she has lived: a computer science engineer who found that art truly enriched her soul, and who turned
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Richa Badoni
This world doesn't sense so why should I paint pictures that do.
For Richa Badoni, painting mountains is a way to forget your troubles, to make your heart skip a beat, and to simply breathe. Art, she says, is what her eye feels when it sees something an exploration of countl
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Pouring heart into Canvas
Vijay Joshi lives a quietly double life — "IT Manager by day and Amateur artist by night, pouring his heart onto canvas." That after-hours devotion gives his work its warmth: this is painting done for love, in
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Surbhi Rawat
The visual art
Surbhi Rawat, working as The Visual Art, paints, in her own words, to bring more beauty into this world a world she feels desperately needs more light and truth. She hopes her art inspires people to follow thei
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Visual Artist from Dehradun
Seerat Kaur is a visual artist from Dehradun who works primarily in acrylics, and who welcomes commissioned artworks and decorative pieces for you and your loved ones. Her paintings draw deeply on Indian tradit
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Ayush Goyal
A photograph, not as a collection of pixels on a 6 inch screen, but as a fine art print.
Ayush Goyal is a fine-art photographer working in the visual-art tradition, but his ambition is bigger than the screen. As he puts it, he wants a photograph seen "not as a collection of pixels on a 6 inch scree
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Theamazingcraftsmen
An artwork is the embodyment of soul of an artist
Sculpting soul into clay and resin Working under the name Theamazingcraftsmen, this Uttarakhand-based artist is a sculptor at heart, building figures from materials that range across polymer clay, resin and epo
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Monika Thakur
Monika Thakur works across two dimensions on KalaCUBE — visual art and handicraft — and both grow out of the same place. "Born and brought up in Himalayan range of INDIA (Himachal Pradesh)," she writes, she pai
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Dr. Baljinder Gill
Nature is a precious canvas, which artists have made even more beautiful through their art
An artist rewriting what a canvas can hold Dr. Baljinder Singh Gill is a visual artist whose practice reaches well beyond the frame. An Inspiring Artist Award winner in India and a Global Award winner, he holds
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Engineer with creative mind
Parmendra Singh is a visual artist who paints to stay whole. "Love of art is only thing which makes me happy in the rat run of corporate," he writes — the words of an "engineer with creative mind" who keeps a b
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Naina Rawat
“Adding life, through brushes”
Under the banner Adding life, through brushes, Naina Rawat is a visual artist who treats almost any surface as an invitation. Her practice moves easily across canvas painting, watercolour and hand-decorated bot
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Himanshi Hudda
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Andy Warhol
Himanshi Hudda is a visual artist who is currently pursuing her B.Ed in Ghaziabad, and who describes art as something that adds happiness to her ordinary life. A natural explorer of new things, places and exper
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Cherry Draws
Connection & Dream Maker.
Cherry Draws describes art in a single word: satisfaction. A professional and freelance artist with seven years of experience in fine arts and design, Cherry works largely in conceptual, digital form forever ma
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Vaishali Bisht
You say it , i make it..
Vaishali Bisht works under the name Rangeeli Masakali, a visual artist and illustrator from Uttarakhand whose practice is built around celebration and storytelling. She makes e-invites, logos, illustrations and
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Pukar
Dr. Anmol Mahani makes art from a place few of us ever see up close. A cancer specialist by profession, she describes a workflow that fills up with colours needing an outlet — emotions and paint pressed into th
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Sneha Negi
"Let's meditate together"
"Hey you all beautiful souls." That is how Sneha Negi greets the world — a self-taught mandala and abstract artist whose invitation is as gentle as her work. "Let's meditate together," her headline offers, and
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Supritha Sharma
Currently Working as an art teacher.
Supritha Sharma's path to art was anything but conventional. Based in Bengaluru, she began her art journey as a hobby in 2017 after dropping out of engineering college. As the daily habit of making took hold an
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Shivani Marothiya
Drawing the desire
Shivani Marothiya is an aspiring artist from a small village in Uttarakhand, and her work carries the quiet honesty of that origin. "My artworks are visual representations of my thought process," she says, "and
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Story of my brushes.
For Nandani Bhugra , painting is far more than a pastime. "I paint because it brings me so much joy," she says, "and for me it is a sacred healing act of reclaiming my right to be here, my right to express myse
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Utkarsh Dandriyal
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Utkarsh Dandriyal is a visual artist devoted to the human face and the discipline of realism. "I love doing portraits and photorealism," he writes. He works across several mediums, but is clear about his curren
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Tejasvi Patel
Abstract Artist
Tejasvi Patel is an abstract painter working in the visual-art tradition, and painting has been a constant across a full and varied life. "I'm an artist, wife, and mother of one daughter," she writes. Alongside
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Shilpi Sinha
Art heals, nurtures, amuses and keeps us alive in true sense.
Shilpi Sinha is a self-taught artist drawn to all forms of art, though she finds herself most at home in realistic painting — depicting nature and, as she puts it, "its best creation, humans." For her, art is b
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