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Meet featured RADARTist @divya_pamnani_✨

RAD: How do you balance making work for yourself vs thinking about collectors and the market?

Divya:
I paint what brings me joy and create art I want to live with. This simple premise guides my subject and colour palette. There are times when I fall short; it’s almost always because I strayed from my instincts. Yet, those moments offer a vital lesson: they teach me to close the gap between vision and execution. Inspiration is a beautiful, precious guide, and narrowing that chasm is exactly the purpose of my practice.

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ABOUT DIVYA:

Divya Pamnani (b. 1983) is a Bombay-based artist whose contemporary practice builds upon the legacy of Indian miniature painting. Her visual storytelling brings together traditional Indian art forms with a love for playful, intricate pattern-making.

Her eclectic background spans Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan, and work in the US non-profit sector until 2014. She transitioned to a full-time studio practice in 2020.

Her formal art education includes abstraction and drawing at the New York Academy of Art, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics and coursework in The Art of the Book in South Asia at Jnanapravaha, Bombay.

She also trained under Master Artist Mahaveer Swami of the Bikaner School in Rajasthan, learning traditional studio practices including the preparation of raw pigments and painting surfaces. This technical training became foundational to her distinctive visual vocabulary.

Today, Divya continues to develop a contemporary language rooted in Indian miniature traditions, shaped by colour, pattern, thematic depth, and her experiences as a professional scuba diver.

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Slowing down enough to hear myself again.
No rush, no outcome—just the work.
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