• Dates: September 2 through September 29, 2026

• Venue: Family Restaurant, Heritage Town, Puducherry

Guest of Honour Dr. Gopal Jayaraman, Kalaimamani awardee and artist, admired the work’s raw conviction: 

“His fearless approach to execution gives the works a sense of spontaneity and vitality… an expressive visual language that is energetic.”

Kirti Chandak of TASMAI, Centre for Art & Culture, offers perhaps the most striking read of the artist himself: 

“He looks very calm on the surface, but a storm of emotions is loaded with madness underlying his stillness… willing to challenge himself at every moment, erase the marks made, to be reborn.” She noted the bull and buffalo as Sezhian’s recurring emblem — “a symbol of patience and power, a persona he identifies with.”

Roy was a multidisciplinary artist, born in New Jersey, United States.
As an Aurovilian of the early days, Roy Chvat contributed throughout
his life to the city of Dawn. He passed away in September 2025
Centre d’Art presented from 21 Aug – 5 Sep 2026 an exhibition of his work
with the title “Living the Dream” – a collection of paintings, comics and sketches
that share the artist’s love, devotion and humor in the process to bring
the Auroville dream into matter.

Lavanya Pawar is an interdisciplinary artist and architect rooted in the experimental spirit of Auroville. With a background that spans electronics, architectural design, and digital marketing, her creative journey is as layered as her art. Her work explores healing, ecology, and resilience through various mediums—minimalist ink, mixed media, photography, and visual storytelling.

Lavanya’s visual language blends structure with spontaneity. Her series of artworks, prints, and handcrafted pieces are shaped by both personal recovery and collective transformation. She draws deeply from inner journeys, spiritual ecology, and the raw terrains of life—often blurring the lines between art, therapy, and activism.

Her projects include workshops on Artful Recovery, Minimalist Nature Ink Painting, and Scientific Toys from Waste, and she has exhibited across Auroville and Tamil Nadu. In 2023, she undertook a remarkable 3500 km solo bike expedition—“One Step Everyday”—from Auroville to Arunachal Pradesh, combining adventure, storytelling, and women’s empowerment.

Whether through quiet ink compositions or vibrant public engagements, Lavanya invokes a world where creativity becomes a tool for regeneration, dialogue, and soul-work.

Exhibitions & Highlights

• Synergy, Hibiscus Art Village, Auroville (2025)

• Out of the Lockdown, Savitri Bhavan, Auroville (2021)

• Remembering Veenapani, Adishakti (2025)

• Artwork featured in Auroville Today, News & Notes, and Enlightened Sapiens YouTube channel.

From early childhood, she was enchanted by the world of art and culture—shaped by both the grandeur of classical masterpieces and the quiet intimacy of domestic craft.

She was first guided by the patient hands of her great-grandmother, a craftswoman rooted in traditional practices, whose presence awakened a fascination with the language of materials and a lifelong love for creating beauty.

Elena’s journey began with fiber arts—crocheting, knitting, embroidery, and wool felting—before expanding into fluid art, painting, epoxy resin, copper work, and most recently, the grounding, elemental world of clay and ceramics.

Her creations are more than objects; they are alchemical invocations — dimensional forms shaped by sacred symbols and myth.

Beyond the studio, Elena occasionally performs in avant-garde theatre and films, continuing to explore the intersection of art, form, and spirit.

She is also an active force in event curation and community-building at Hibiscus Art Village, where she helps cultivate a thriving creative platform for artists, makers, and cultural exchange.

Participant of

Krishna Charitra 5th Chittorgarh Art Festival, Rajasthan 2017

International Art Mart Khajuraho 2018

6th Chittorgarh Art Festival 2018

Art Camp Ujjain 2019

Women artists exhibition at Kala Kendra, Bharat Nivas, Auroville 2021

Multiple exhibitions of Hibiscus Art Village

https://www.instagram.com/ptichka.v.golove

https://www.instagram.com/birdie_curiosity

https://www.instagram.com/hibiscus_av

My name is Jasmine, I am 23 years old and grew up in Auroville.

I paint using acrylic on canvas with my primary source of inspiration being the sky.

Painting has been my means of expression for as long as I am able to remember. From taking part in Auroville’s The Play Of Painting program when I was little, to joining Last School where I was given the tools to grow my technique and practical abilities, to now painting on my own and learning through ongoing practice. Light and colour make me feel so it is my hope that my pieces are able to capture those two things and therefore evoke feeling.

My first exhibition/installation in 2021 was very large scale, a literal Walk in the Clouds with the paintings being meters tall. In 2022 I moved to England where my tiny room forced me to size down but I kept painting and eventually exhibited my work as part of Open Up Sheffield before moving back to Auroville. I now find myself continuing to enjoy painting smaller pieces and of course, I am still in utter admiration of the sky.

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/jasmineelizabethart

Email : jasmineelizabethstorey@gmail.com

Phone : +918940779187

Address : Evergreen, Auroville, 605101

When I first started drawing as a teenager, I used pencils most often, and sometimes acrylic paint. Then I got more into using charcoal as my medium before I switched to oil paints, which is what I mainly use now, and occasionally acrylics. I tend to paint more in black and white than color.

I always liked drawing and painting portraits; it’s what I do most. I have also done other types of paintings, like seascapes, nature, and animals. I always copy from a photograph for anything I paint. In recent years I’ve started doing more custom art for people, where they send me a photo of a portrait or anything, and I make it into a painting.

Contact:
dasha(at)yours.com

Links:
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/diatsenko.art/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/diatsenko_art/
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6zBUnPz24UYDwrKX8vWFQ/videos

Ever since she was a little girl, Claire, said she would live several lives in one. True to her word, she explored many different paths before placing her art practice at the centre of her life.

Claire was initially trained in France by a Bauhaus painter who spontaneously offered to share her knowledge with her, it was one of the lovely encounters that changed her life; one of the many she has had on her path. Continuing her artistic journey, she explored in the direction of traditional arts and was trained in the Japanese painting technique Sumi-e, which had a profound impact on her development as an artist; pushing her to evolve her practice and research, it taught her to look at the world through another set of eyes.

For Claire her art practice is one and of one piece with her decision to walk a spiritual path. Her art is an expression of the unfolding of her inner journey. She intuitively fluctuates between the abstract and the figurative, creating subtle worlds that evoke imaginary and symbolic landscapes, where nature is animated. In her visual storytelling there are no boundaries between realms, instead they simply unfold into each other in a kind of continuum.

In her present series of paintings, Hidden Cities, the symbolic and allegorical cityscapes that she depicts,  timeless and unknown, may sometimes evoke metropolises or some undiscovered or mythical cities.
“The cities are a metaphor of our limitations and resistances,  says Claire, and that’s actually the parallel I make, it’s between walls and limitations, they form layers of all that must transform in us; the journey to experience this inner transformation is not a linear ascending process but rather a multi dimensional one”, and this is how Claire etches out her visual narrative, playing with different planes. She pursues: “And they are layers and layers to be transformed  at different levels, nested in each other, strata of our small and large stories of now and before. The mythical cities are present remains of an attempt of a new world and in this adventure of a new man, we also carry these experiences”.

Her iridescent paintings are always alight with a fire which is the manifestation of the will that allows us to overcome limitations. “The skies represent possibilities”, explains Claire, “and on Earth, where all our limitations are, there is a sea or a river, a flow, that allows us to link everything.”

She uses tempera with wash technique as used in Indian traditional ancient arts and watercolours and ink as used in different ancient Asian techniques. Her references are painters such as Paul Klee, VS Gaitonde and Zao Wou-Ki. Claire Iono’s evocative and imaginary is effortlessly fused to create an image of hope and life, with this positive energy that radiates through the beautifully ethereal world that manifests in her work.

Her art pieces find collector’s homes all around the world. She has held several solo shows and has participated in several group shows in India and in international art fairs.This last year, Claire was a finalist of the Indian national competition Ora Mojarto and of the international exhibition, Art revolution Taipei in Taiwan.

She recently has joined the artist’s catalogue of Kalakriti Art Gallery, one major gallery in India.

Working in a wealth of materials and contexts, her art ranges from sculpture and woodwork to painting, illustration and performance art inspired and supported by her background in fine art, theatre, dance and equestrianism.

Recently returned to Auroville after graduating with a Masters in Fine Art from the Birmingham School of Art, Lili combines her work with the Treehouse Community and her ongoing research and development in horsemanship to drive her art practice in ever new directions.

Contact:
email: ldreikhausen(at)gmail.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/being.lili/
contact number : 9585942813

Aparajita Barai is a communication designer and an artist. She has graduated from National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad and completed her masters with a distinction in Design for Communication from University of Westminster, London.

Her work shows influence from the folk style and reveals the intricacy of traditional Indian art form. Mythology and spirituality predominantly mark her subject.

Her motive and mission is to re-stir Indian spirituality and philosophy and present it with personal quest. She aims to dig out the ancient treasures, meanings and possibilities that have got submerged under the ceremonial practices.

LINKS
Website: www.belovedindia.com
Attend the Upcoming / Ongoing events by Aparajita Barai: www.belovedindia.com/upcoming-ongoing

CONTACT

E-mail: belovedindia@yahoo.com

Born in Paris, Nathalie moved to India at the age of 7 when her family came to live in Auroville in the early days, as devotees of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. Growing up in Auroville has brought on a profound sense of exploration, adventure and a passion for learning.

Author and illustrator of two children books published in Auroville: MANGO TREE – 2018, JUST IMAGINE! – 2017, In 2012 she Illustrated The Little Wave, a book by Renu Neogy.

She lives with her partner of many years in Auroville – South India, where trees, mongoose, lizards and birdsong are welcomed friends in a mutually beneficial environment.

Email: nathalie(at)auroville.org.in

Just Imagine: The book 2017

The Little Wave: By Renu Neogy, Illustrated by Nathalie

Mango Tree: The book 2018

Mail: orevindia@gmail.com
Phone number: 2622154  

WORKS

contact:
e-mail: sathyacolour [at] auroville.org.in
address: Shankalpa, Auroville
mobile: +91 9486145072

link:
http://sathyacolour.blogspot.in
www.facebook.com/artbreezegallery

work:

contact:

e-mail: happy [at] auroville.org.in
phone: +91 80-98680467
address: Luminosity, Auroville

work:

I work with black pen on paper and give ceramic a new look. Changing simple utensils into unique objects, and expressing my creativity this way, is something I enjoy enormously.

The designs I’ve made on paper get a second life as well. They can travel all over the world as postcards or can be enjoyed as a print in a frame, on a cushioncover or worn on a t-shirt.

Sharing my art is a pure joy!

contact:

e-mail: connieartcards [at] gmail.com

address: Samasti, Auroville

mobile: +91 9655855368

link:

conniesgraphicdesign.wordpress.com

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contact:
mackinoav [at] yahoo.com

work:

video of my last installation “Le bateau de Marco”

Contact:


e-mail: ivana.frousova [at] yahoo.co.uk

phone: (91) 7094344154
community: Vikas, Auroville

work:

contact:
ade.jacques65 [at] gmail.com

links:
http://s81598.wix.com/dominiquejacques
https://vimeo.com/28406688

work:

Over the past several years, while traveling between the US, Mexico, Guatemala and India, I have worked with materials easily transportable such as pen, ink (fine point, permanent markers) and watercolors.

My palette covers the entire spectrum, aligning, opening and expanding the energy of my chakras. I am inspired by my surroundings, the people, places and especially the Divine in nature.

Becoming an Art Therapist has become my ”calling”, my dharma, my path. I have always felt that art making and participation in the creative process, provides a voice, limitless freedom of personal self -expression and a vehicle for healing, communication and connection.

Unfortunately, Tia passed away in the year 2024.

contact:
e-mail: tialovesart [at] gmail.com
tel: (91) 9787468553

link:
www.createandtransform.org

work:

What is my ideal? In few words to become someone worth of subtle and radiant expressions of the divine light, someone true. I paint portraits with oil. I think human face is a constellation of the Stars. One could see in it the entire universe.

contact:
address: Samasti, Auroville
phone: (91) 0413 2623627, (91) 8098631576

links:
www.facebook.com/shakti.balu
www.linkedin.com/pub/shakti-balu

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contact:
address: Minati, Auroville
e-mail: sukhinosergio [at] gmail.com
tel: (91) 0413 2622 861

work:

My skills in photography have followed in the footsteps of my interest in painting. I love to capture beautiful compositions, rare moments, unexpected and unruly Nature, sense of the unknown in the known things – I keep exploring, experimenting, learning…
I aspire for the revelation of the Eternal in time.

contact:
e-mail: asheshjoshi [at] auroville.org.in
tel: 9489147202

link:
www.asheshjoshi.com

work:

In 1994, I started ‘Kalabhumi’ (the ‘Land of Arts’) in the heart of the Cultural Zone of Auroville – the beginning of a Cultural Centre with ateliers and studios for the education and practice of all forms of Art Expression. In the last few years (before 2012), the main work-focus was on Architecture and as member of the Town-Planning Group L’avenir d’Auroville/ Town Development Council. Since April 2012 I live in Germany and work on oil paintings, with exhibitions in November and December.

contact:
e-mail: rolfartist [at] gmail.com, rolfartist [at] auroville.org.in
address:
India: Kalabhumi, Auroville, Tel. 2623670
Germany: Kirchberg 21, 51491 Overath, Tel 02206-865686

link:
www.rolfart.webs.com

work:

Osiva’s paintings are joyful and evoke images of a dreamy, carefree world full of colors and light. Vibrant strokes of his paintings reflect his inner freedom. He shares his love for art with the local children.

contact:
e-mail: osivaarts [at] gmail.com
address: Yatra, Near Newcreation Sports Ground, Kuilapalayam
tel: mobile: (91)9629832216/ office: (91)0413- 2623071

link:
www.yatraarts.org

work:

Her illustration work is primarily created by hand drawings and watercolor and at times a little bit in Photoshop.  Nicole likes to work predominantly in the medium of watercolor painting, but also includes ink,  collage elements and acrylic paint into her work.

She has been drawing and painting since she was a child through the inspiration of her grandmother. Nicole attended American River College where she studied Fine Art and Child Development, but she is mainly self-taught.

Her work has been featured in two small, but successful, solo exhibits in the United States. She has also been featured in a group show in 2013.

Today her work can be found in a variety of mediums. At the moment Nicole is working on a variety of new pieces and hopes to put together a solo show, but she spends most of her time teaching art to children in Auroville.

contact:
e-mail: nicolerene.alexander [at] gmail.com

link:
www.facebook.com/Skinnywolfart

work:

My art is altogether an instrument and an expression of that quest.

contact:
e-mail: patenaude [at] auroville.org.in
address: Grace; Auroville
tel: (91) 0413 2623345

link:
www.auroville.org/art&culture/painting/monique

work:

contact:
e-mail: miki [at] auroville.org.in
tel: (91) 0413 2622-229

work:

contact:
e-mail: marlenka [at] auroville.org.in
address: Creativity, Auroville
tel: (91) 0413 262 3615, (91) 948 636 3525

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