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“BLOOM”

In the summer of 2019, during my travels painting in the countrysides of Finland and Switzerland, the native wild flora of these regions fascinated me as I painted the blooming flowers in their natural environs. In the spring of 2020, with the outbreak of the coronavirus and unexpected lockdown in India, I observed that the Gulmohar and the Indian laburnum trees blooming with rich blossoms more than they usually do. With hardly any human presence, its branches stooped so low, I could almost touch the flowers, a rare sight especially in Mumbai where such magnificent trees once in abundance are now rare. The little girls in my paintings share a very close and personal bond with these blooming trees and just like the trees, they too are blooming. As these little girls grow up, their close bond and their conversations with the trees has remained the same. My current theme, “Bloom” deals with the very fact that if we as adults can have a childlike innocence and share the responsibility to preserve nature and live in harmony with it, our planet will be a more beautiful place.

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Devdatta Padekar

Devdatta Padekar studied at Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1999, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Portraiture in 2001. On both occasions, he stood first with distinction. He later won the British Chevening Scholarship and earned a Master of Art in Drawing in 2005 from Camberwell college of Arts in London. A full-time painter, Padekar gets his greatest inspiration from nature and his paintings highlight its beauty and sensitivity. He travels and paints in different places around the world on themes in nature that inspire and challenge him as an artist. Padekar has won several awards nationally and internationally. He is also the recipient of Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award in Canada in 2006.

He has had eleven solo shows till date and his works are in collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and in private collections in India and abroad.