Practicing art, especially painting has been an integral part of Tanisha Bakshi’s life, as long as she recalls. Having won several prizes in schooltime for exceptional fine art skills, Tanisha was crystal clear about taking up art as her career, even when she scored a 97 percent in her high school and everyone around thought this scholar was going to pursue commerce, the topper decided to paint her own rainbow road to art.
Tanisha has explored the myriad colors of art on her own until she took up formal training in 2014 and is now a full time artist who operates from her studio in Gurgaon for the last seven years. Her creations primarily focus on the most beautiful of all emotions, a mother’s love. Captured in it’s many forms, a mother’s love is universal and for her it is the biggest inspiration and an unparalleled driving force.
She is the youngest Indian artist who does realistic painting of this calibre, her work style is very unique and involves the use of readymade materials as a base for her artworks. She has made it an integral part of her art practice to represent a hidden history sacred to those in the paintings, a history that she is always honoured to be a part of.
Her experiments using the saree and other readymade materials was highly appreciated by critics and media both in her first group exhibition and she went on to create huge artworks in the same language for which she won several laurels. She has since created many series, each with a unique style of her own in terms of canvas and artworks both.
