ABOUT GAYATRI DESHPANDE
Abstract Series – Rain
Born on 7th June 1975 in Nagpur….Gayatri was brought up in Pune. She is a Pune based artist now. Painting was always her passion. After successful schooling with really good grades, she followed her passion by taking admission in the esteemed Art School in Pune – The Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya. After her training in the faculty of Fine Arts(drawing and painting) she passed out with flying colours in 1995 to further pursue her dreams. Gayatri’s works gathered several prizes and awards at exhibitions conducted by different Art Societies. To start with she exhibited her works through several group shows…. At, NCPA Mumbai in 1992, ‘Different Strokes’ in Pune in 1996, at Café Sunrise in Pune in 1998,….Gayatri then got an opportunity to work as an Art Teacher at a very renowned school in Pune. She is a painter who feels great satisfaction painting as well as teaching art to the young artists. You can see her carrying out different activities and the great pleasure she has doing that. She is a proud mother of a fine 25 year old girl. Gayatri got back to painting after years of serving for her job and family, to be true to her calling, to follow her dream.
Her works have been exhibited at The Jehangir Art Gallery in April 2011 ; the Tilting Art Gallery ,Pune ,2012; the Art2day Gallery, Pune, 2013 ; the Monalisa Kalagram, Pune, 2014; a solo show at the PNG art gallery Pune,2015 ;a group show at the Mahua art gallery, Bangalore,2017 ; Kian Casa gallery, Pune in Oct.2020, Art route art gallery, Delhi 2022, Solo show at Jehangir art gallery Mumbai and Monalisa Kalagram Pune in 2022, to name a few. Some more group shows in Pune and Delhi followed till date. She has been invited by AWG gallery to be a part of the IAF Parallel show- Fluidity, in 2025 at Delhi. Recently, in Aug.2025, she exhibited in a group show at the Jehangir art gallery, Mumbai. Her works have been appreciated and sold in India and abroad too. Her paintings have been selected and exhibited at various internet portals as well. She has been active in this field for more than 25 years now, may it be as an artist, an art teacher or a trainee at some art workshop and even a writer for Pune’s reputed daily, Sakal. Art has always been an inseparable part of Gayatri and she continues to exhibit her art globally, physically and online. Gayatri’s work is primarily done on canvas in acrylics, oil or watercolour. Charcoal on paper or canvas is her new found love. She hopes to lead the viewer into a resonant space. She seeks freedom with imagery. Hence she likes to use the abstract vocabulary. At the same time she likes to use some stated imagery as well , so that her work has both elements to varying degree. As she grew as an artist, she found that she could express herself better with colours and forms – the things she had no words for. Colours and forms became reflections of her thoughts…her feelings. It’s pure emotions that she wanted to offer. She never paints with a strategy…an idea is born and then it becomes something else. The aim of her art is to represent the inward significance of things.
Artist statement:
My work has grown substantially over the period and is getting sublime as it matures. One can feel as if it is explored in a manner of a traveller in the void landscape. The imagery resonates the possibility of a multi layered colony; colony of thoughts, senses, desire and what not… There is an interesting play of known and unknown, static and movement, light and shade. I revel in the sheer joy of Being and celebrate life in all its enchanting colours. My paintings reflect my search for my true essence, my delight at discovering hidden layers to myself, my enjoyment of the limitless possibilities and vastness of life. I dive deep within myself to conjure up images dream-like, aglow with epiphanies, the light playing off shadows to reveal a magical inner landscape. Every time the sands shift, they throw up new dimensions, new depths of the self. It’s a dip into infinity. My paintings are just a medium of expression to reach out to you and my palette has helped me create this abstract experience. It has been a deeply introspective journey.
