ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dr. Nisha Jaiswal is a self-taught miniature artist from Gorakhpur, UP, who paints in two formats - Hindu deities in black-and-white and multi-coloured peacocks depicting different themes. This uniquely-talented artist, a graduate from Delhi University, holds a Doctorate in Political Science and is engaged in the academia of Gorakhpur University. She has received no formal training in art either at college or at the school level. After graduating from Delhi University, she completed her Masters and her Doctoral studies post-marriage. Nisha Jaiswal, at 50, is also a housewife and mother of one. Managing several roles simultaneously, she brings to life her stunning depictions of deities and peacocks.
Since she is a professional academician, she gets only two months in a calendar year, the university summer vacations, to dedicate herself completely to the art. Painting 7 to 8 hours a day, she works for up to two or more summer breaks to complete one painting.
Her works have been influenced by the Madhubani folk art, and nuances of Jamini Roy’s style are also perceptible. She uses a Grapho pen for her black-and-white compositions and water colours and a No. 2 paint brush for her coloured paintings. Yet the only similarity between both these art forms is that for every dot, she holds her breath –--- a trivial break or disturbance in the inhale-exhale pattern can cause irreparable damages to her paintings.
In December 2007, she held her first exhibition at the India Habitat Centre --- an exhibition highly appreciated by the visitors comprising eminent personalities in the field of the arts such as Nafisa Ali, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Lillete Dubey as well as by the general public. She has also received accolades from the press including from many popular magazines like Vama, Femina, India Today and dailies like The Pioneer, The Asian Age, The Statesman, Dainik Jagran and Amar Ujala, to name a few. On ‘International Women’s Day’, 9th March, 1997, she was given the award of Outstanding Women Entrepreneur for her outstanding contribution in the field of ‘Originality or Innovation’ by the Junior Chamber, an International Organization. Her work was highly appreciated at the All India Art Exhibition held at Amrita Art Gallery, DDU Gorakhpur University on February 14, 2009.
She does not want to restrict her audience to the intelligentsia or to the people who are stimulated by the abstract. She has hence chosen deities and peacocks so that she can widen the scope of the comprehension of her art by viewers irrespective of their age, profession or strata of society they belong to, as she sees in them her critics, advisors and Gurus.
Click here to read about the artist and her work in an article published by ICCR's Indian Horizons issue of April-June 2011.
Since she is a professional academician, she gets only two months in a calendar year, the university summer vacations, to dedicate herself completely to the art. Painting 7 to 8 hours a day, she works for up to two or more summer breaks to complete one painting.
Her works have been influenced by the Madhubani folk art, and nuances of Jamini Roy’s style are also perceptible. She uses a Grapho pen for her black-and-white compositions and water colours and a No. 2 paint brush for her coloured paintings. Yet the only similarity between both these art forms is that for every dot, she holds her breath –--- a trivial break or disturbance in the inhale-exhale pattern can cause irreparable damages to her paintings.
In December 2007, she held her first exhibition at the India Habitat Centre --- an exhibition highly appreciated by the visitors comprising eminent personalities in the field of the arts such as Nafisa Ali, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Lillete Dubey as well as by the general public. She has also received accolades from the press including from many popular magazines like Vama, Femina, India Today and dailies like The Pioneer, The Asian Age, The Statesman, Dainik Jagran and Amar Ujala, to name a few. On ‘International Women’s Day’, 9th March, 1997, she was given the award of Outstanding Women Entrepreneur for her outstanding contribution in the field of ‘Originality or Innovation’ by the Junior Chamber, an International Organization. Her work was highly appreciated at the All India Art Exhibition held at Amrita Art Gallery, DDU Gorakhpur University on February 14, 2009.
She does not want to restrict her audience to the intelligentsia or to the people who are stimulated by the abstract. She has hence chosen deities and peacocks so that she can widen the scope of the comprehension of her art by viewers irrespective of their age, profession or strata of society they belong to, as she sees in them her critics, advisors and Gurus.
Click here to read about the artist and her work in an article published by ICCR's Indian Horizons issue of April-June 2011.