managed by Yatra E. Srinivassan The Yatra Art & Culture Foundation promotes education through the arts, offering academic support and arts classes to area village children. Evening Tuition and English classes support the children’s studies, while Bharatanatyam dance, veena, Carnatic singing, painting and drama classes encourage exploration in both traditional Indian performing arts and modern […]
Savitri Bhavan in Auroville is a centre dedicated to fostering a living sense of Human Unity through spiritual education based on the vision and teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The central focus is Sri Aurobindo’s mantric epic Savitri: a legend and a symbol, which the Mother has called ‘The supreme revelation of Sri […]
Supriya is a ceramic artist and an Ikebana artist with love for painting. In ceramics, she uses different clays and different ways of firing them – in a gas kiln and an anagama kiln, which reflects different surfaces that she pursues to express her creativity. Form is her ever attractive inner drive. A thought, an […]
My love for Arts and painting commenced and has grown with the study of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother; learning has been an education in appreciating the beauty of life. When the moments of deep intimacy descend on me and the inner vision shines through, I feel charmed… I paint. My skills in photography have […]
A human being in quest of a larger, higher and more beautiful life on this planet: this is the best presentation I would give of myself. My art is altogether an instrument and an expression of that quest. contact:e-mail: patenaude [at] auroville.org.inaddress: Grace; Aurovilletel: (91) 0413 2623345 link:www.auroville.org/art&culture/painting/monique work:
While living and working in Auroville, Miki is an active member of Janaka House, painting in the Tanjore, Tibetan styles,using natural earth and mineral pigments. A memory of this trans-cultural flavor is present in her art in acrylic on canvas, fused with personal identity and mythology. contact:e-mail: miki [at] auroville.org.intel: (91) 0413 2622-229 work:
I feel that life is art; it isn’t a separate sort of thing. To make my surroundings a work of art, harmonious to the senses, that is of paramount importance for me. To paint with a brush or a pen on a piece of paper or on a ceramic piece, it does not matter. What […]
The Path of Silk: The Art of Quilting. Coming from a background of theatre, I settled in Auroville in January 1984.For my work in theatre and dance, manual work has always been essential. So I was cultivating hobbies like painting, batik and patchwork. Today quilting is my canvas on which forms are evolving. I find […]
Autodidact since1970. It was after my first journey to Auroville in 1973, in a quest for the future, that inspiration emerged freely. I returned to France and despite all the social and familial difficulties, the decision to paint daily imposed itself. After experimenting with different materials and mediums in an original and non-academic way, I […]
Hufreesh Dumasia is an intuitive abstract artist. She has been painting ever since she was old enough to hold a brush. To become an artist wasn’t a conscious choice, but a natural expression of her being. Growing up in Sri Aurobindo Centre of International education in South of India and then later joining the Universal […]
Depth and lightness, density and humor reveal themselves in Emanuele’s work through the «brush engravings on stone» created in the privacy of his atelier – a meeting with the stone and its telling features; and the illustrations of «Papui and Something Else», created in lively India. contact:address: Sukhavati, Aurovillephone : (91) 413 2623407e-mail: lele [at] auroville.org.in […]
Bachelor in Fine Arts. Painting and engraving specialties. Currently writing her doctoral thesis on Indian aesthetics and contemporary art, on the way to understand the deepest significance of the aesthetic experience and the place of Art and Beauty in current life. contact:e-mail: claramsev [at] gmail.comtel: +91 9843183057 (India) +34 649503042 (Spain) work:
