The painting room: Where artworks are created

The studio is a curious shape-shifting space, changing from artist to artist

Mar 17, 2017, 10:18 IST1 min

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MANJUNATH KAMATHVasant Kunj, New DelhiMy studio is a reflection of my artworks: A little of the space filled in, a lot of it left empty. This place houses my collection of traditional and folk art (points to a leather puppet from Andhra and a bhoota figure from Mangaluru on the far wall of the studio) which I have been collecting since childhood. These artworks inspire me and appear in my

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RAMESHWAR BROOTATriveni Kala Sangam, New DelhiThis space where I create my works also doubles up as my office as the head of the Department of Art at Triveni Kala Sangam where I teach. I don’t work in isolation like a lot of artists do. It’s essential that I have all this life around me, these students working in the other rooms down the corridor, the interruptions. Yet, amidst all this,

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THOTA VAIKUNTAMJubilee Hills, HyderabadSpace is everything. And controlling space is our main problem as artists. When we lived in a smaller house in Chikkadpally [a locality in central Hyderabad], I would be painting in the room and my wife and kids did their chores around me. Our family is used to it, but such an arrangement doesn’t suit everybody. Having an individual space to work in

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