Tag: female artists

For generations, women were encouraged to make art but discouraged from becoming professional artists. This article explores how women challenged exclusion from nineteenth-century art academies, fought for access to life drawing and professional education, and built their own institutions when established ones refused them.

Niyati Mehta’s creative journey is shaped by experimentation, curiosity, and a desire to understand herself through art. Working across watercolour, graphite, acrylic, and oil, she gives herself the freedom to explore different techniques and visual possibilities rather than staying within the boundaries of one medium. Each material offers a new way to approach an idea, while the process itself becomes a form of personal discovery. Her practice reflects the belief that an artist’s visual language develops gradually through making, experimenting, and paying attention to what continues to feel meaningful. Personal experiences…

Five painters who submitted for our virtual exhibition Birds showed us that birds are never just creatures in the sky they are symbols of freedom, memory, and imagination. Through their submissions, we see how birds can be playful, fragile, majestic, or deeply symbolic. Each work reflects personal vision, reminding us that while our experiences differ, the wonder birds inspire is universal. This feature is not about selected finalists, but about honouring the generosity of artists who shared their worlds with us. Their stories enrich the growing archive of this exhibition, which…