About Bansri Chavda

Bansri is an Indian painter living and working in Mumbai. The sale of her work at ARTBASEL - REDDOTMIAMI 2018, has been one of it kind as its deeeply supported by a visual art project in form of a music video which is now published on you tube as presented by an art gallery at Rome,this work as a breakthrough as it keenly shows her deep process as a fine artist. She thinks of herself as “a storyteller of the world about us”, raising the relevant questions about life, soul and awareness. Art – like meditation – is a means to dive into oneself. “My art is like a mantra given by my master – love, live, laugh, give!”. She found her artistic vocation in 2001 when her native village in Gujrat was hit by an earthquake reaching a maximum felt intensity of X on the Mercalli intensity scale. Amongst the ruin of the disaster, art stood for Bansri like the only hope to help herself and her community. “That’s how I started a loving caring tango” with painting, along with an operating role as activist in her own community. Sharing and social awareness have since the deepest impact in her life and her artistic path. And Teaching ART to kids,, her all time passion! Her inner push to help soon becomes involvement in many humanitarian projects. Bansri works as art facilitator and project manager in Shivkul Commune: an institution in the foothills of Himalayas in Uttaranchal India, now having joint efforts to build up a school with a principal base for arts and culture. Also along with the American painter ROMANHO she volunteered for “NHO“: a global campaign against child abuse in the poorest countries of India. Her technical process finds her more inclined to linen canvases and oils, but she may also pick up pen and ink, waters and charcoal as fine ingredients for what she calls “my art curry”. It is a definely unique style melting borders between techniques in a strong and personal manner. “When I paint I try to bring into my oils what I love in waters, and texture and quality of a charcoal. It’s not conscious but it happens that way […] My art develops the best when I know where not to interfere.”