Age no bar: 87-year-old grandmother turns a painter

Age is no bar if one really wants to learn or create something new. And when 87-year-old grandmother Savita Dwivedi decided to showcase her creative prowess, her old age did not deter her. Fondly known as ‘Jiji’, Udaipur based Dwivedi has displayed her artworks in the Sukriti art gallery of Jawahar Kala Kendra. Inaugurated by Manju Baghmar, women and child development minister, the exhibition has around 100 artworks and has got appreciation from art-lovers.

Dwivedi, a self-taught artist, tells multiple stories through her paintings. Be it women cooking over a chulha, their odhanis aflame with bright colours, women fetching water, pots stacked like a crown, farming, or sowing seeds into fields, women dominate the frames. She began to seriously create artworks during Covid-19 and since than she has created more than 100 artworks. Using memory as her landscape, she tells multiple stories. Scenes from the ceremonious myths of Rama's exile, Karishna’s Raas, bride at a wedding, a village scene or women performing some religious rituals, Dwivedi look for subjects in daily mundane life. The exhibition is open till March 10th.
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