PROFILE OF SWATI LODHA

THERE IS FAÇADE OF TRANQUILITY SEEN IN SWATI’S WORK AS THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF POWERFUL EMOTIONS, OFTEN MELANCHOLY OR CONTEMPLATIVE THAT SEEM TO DETERMINE THE HUMAN PERSONA, CHARACTERIZED BY STYLIZED IMAGES.

WHERE APPLYING POETRY AS A MEDIUM TO EXPRESS HER CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS, SWATI FINDS PAINTING A MORE ARTICULATE DEVICE TO DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLE. WHILE GROWING UP AROUND THE WORKS OF HER ARTIST MOTHER SWATI WAS INVARIABLY DRAWN TOWARDS THE WORLD OF COLORS, FANTASIES AND WORDLESS EXPRESSION “I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DRAWN TOWARDS EXPRESSING THE EPHEMERAL ELEMENTS AND THE LYRICISM OF LIFE WHILE DELVING INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS.”

SHE WAS ENCOURAGED AS A CHILD TO PURSUE HER INCLINATION FOR ART WHEN SHE STOOD FIRST IN ALL INDIA CAMEL COLOR CONTEST IN 1984 & 1985. WHILE BEING A MERIT HOLDER IN GRADUATION, SWATI TOPPED HER MASTERS IN DRAWING AND PAINTIING & WAS A GOLD MEDALLIST SHE WAS AWARDED BY REGIONAL STUDENT’S LALIT KALA ACADEMY IN THE YEAR 1996. SHE WON THE FIRST PRIZE IN POSTER COMPETITION HELD BY R.N.T. MEDICAL COLLEGE IN 1997. THE ARTIST WAS INVITED BY THE WEST ZONE CULTURAL CENTRE TO ATTEND A WORKSHOP AT GOA IN 1997. SHE HAS TAKEN PART IN GROUP SHOWS AND HER WORKS ARE PART OF SEVERAL COLLECTIONS IN INDIA AND ABROAD. SWATI CLEARED THE N.E.T. OF THE U.G.C. AND HAS SERVED AS GUEST LECTURER IN COLLEGE FOR TWO SESSIONS.

SHE HAS PRESENTLY DEVOTED HERSELF ENTIRELY TO HER ART.