Maitreyi Desai

Born in Valsad, Gujarat. She pursued her Bachelor’s degree of Visual Arts in Painting and Master’s degree of Visual arts in Print-making from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda (2011-17). Maitreyi’s artworks feels ageless, like the bark of that hundred year old tree; and yet it is also deeply personal, ethereal in its delicacy. Through these interconnections with nature, she wishes to assert her own identity; an identity synonymous with rootness, groundedness, to a home, a family and if we can expand our consciousness, to nature. These are the layered metaphors in her work. The intricacies in her artworks are not just aesthetic representations of nature but also emotive, the essence of what it means to make a home, layer by layer, line by line is seen here. The artist is currently based in Vadodara, Gujarat.