Rini Dhumal
Baroda painter and printmaker best known for her Devi series, which presents the female figure as an image of shakti.
- Born
- 1948
- Died
- 2021
- Birthplace
- Rangpur, Bangladesh
- Medium
- Painting, Printmaking, Ceramics, Tapestry
Rini Dhumal was born in 1948 and died in 2021 in Vadodara, where she lived and worked for most of her adult life. She studied fine arts at the M.S. University of Baroda, where K.G. Subramanyan was among her teachers, then went to Paris on a French government scholarship to study printmaking with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17, and later worked with Krishna Reddy.
She taught at M.S. University and became head of its painting department. Her solo exhibitions began in 1974 and were held in Paris, Chile, Germany, Spain, Japan and several Indian cities. Her work centres on female figures, often presented as goddesses, in dense layered imagery. She received the Chancellor's Gold Medal in 1972 and the Governor's Gold Medal in Calcutta in 1974.
A life, dated
AB / TIMELINE
- 1948
Born in Rangpur, in what is now Bangladesh.
- 1972
Completed her degrees in painting at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
- 1975
Won a French government scholarship to study printmaking under S. W. Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris.
- 1984
Joined the faculty of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda as a printmaker.
- 1987
Her work was included in the Festival of India in Moscow.
- 2021
Died in Vadodara at the age of 73.
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AB / WORKS
Devotional & narrative
Ganesha in green and gold
Ramesh Gorjala. An olive gold ground carries a broad elephant face in a heavy black outline.
Abstract
Cobalt currents, a gold seam
Prakash Bal Joshi. A canvas of moving blue: broad diagonal strokes in cobalt, ultramarine and pale sky-blue, scraped and dragged so the surface looks like water under wind, or silk folded o.
Landscape, nature & trees
Four elephants and the green tree
Chandra Morkonda. A great tree with rounded green crowns, each leaf veined in orange and gold, stands on a golden trunk at the left, over a ground of patterned triangles in orange and saff.
Devotional & narrative
Two bulls carrying the gods
Vivek Kumavat. Two stylised bulls meet face to face on a warm brown ground, set against a dark block pattern.
All works Abstract Figures Devotional Landscape Ravi Varma Press stones