Mawi

Some delectable baubles from Manipur born designer Mawi's heritage collection. Thang-Mawi was born in India and raised all around the world. Having honed her skills at Isaac Mizrahi in New York, Bill Amberg and Vita Couture in London, she launched her own line in 2002. Since then her groundbreaking collections have gone from strength to strength. Her much copied look combining tusks, pearls and cluster of vintage charms on bracelets and pendants have become fashion classics.

Prashant Miranda

Mr.Miranda is having an exhibition of his paintings until the 15th of April at the Next Shop , N Block Market , New Delhi. Go have a look see.

Manjula Padmanabhan

Manjula Padmanabhan is a Delhi based artist, illustrator, cartoonist, playwright and novelist. She has illustrated 21 children's books, and has had a long running cartoon strip, Suki, in the Sunday Observer and later the Pioneers.Images from here. For some reason the etchings seem to have a nostalgic aura about them, yeah?

Natasha Preenja

I've featured Delhi based artist Natasha Preenja here before & promised to showcase more of her work . Natasha is working on some very exciting projects and has just sent in a couple of her pieces from her latest collection. The paintings are so beautifully rendered one would think they're vector illustrations but they're actually acrylic on canvas. Can't wait to see more from the Goddess series.

Well Paper

These products are an environmentally friendly handicraft, rolled woven and pulped by the women of Well Paper, using recycled materials such as newspapers. WELL means "Women's Empowerment through Local Livelihood". The project is a training and empowerment center for women from the surrounding villages of Auroville, India. Its two main goals are to provide livelihood for women and to develop / promote products made of recycled materials. To look at more of their products go here.

Rina Banerjee

Rina Banerjee had sent in images of a couple of her works from her current exhibition at The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art that I've taken forever to post . Banerjee currently lives & works in NYC . Her works explore specific colonial moments that reinvent place and identity as complex diasporic experiences, their aesthetic and cultural beginnings suggest in particular how the many regional culture affects continue to stain our perceptions of home, the exotic, the foreign and domestic worlds. Her exhibition will be on display through the 25th of May.

Adil Writer

Adil Writer is a ceramic artist based out of Auroville, Pondicherry. Adil’s works exemplify a fearlessness to explore. Some of his pieces feature written text on textured clay bearing poetry, ruminations, lyrics & mantras in Sanskrit.