Mandira Ravindranath is an artist living and working in New Delhi. Professionally trained in fashion design, her inherent talent and inclination has always been towards line drawing and illustration. After close to a decade in the Indian fashion industry, Mandira made a transition to the art world, and has held two solo shows in 2014 and 2017, at the India Habitat Centre and the Shridharani Gallery respectively.

For her third solo showing held in May 2022, Mandira returned to the historical Shridharani gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, located in the heart of Delhi's cultural district. Featuring her signature detailed, intricate penmanship, this collection of artworks represented a culmination of two and a half years of concentrated creative effort.

Working primarily in ink on paper, Mandira creates elaborate, complex compositions in black on white, occasionally accented by layered acrylic colours, within both geometric and abstract formations. Despite having lived in urban environments all her life, her chief source of inspiration is from nature and nature-derived elements; hence the very organic feel to the form and abundant detail in her artworks.

Mandira utilises pattern and repetition to achieve an almost meditative rhythm while working. Both her choice of medium and her execution of these fine ink drawings reflect her meticulous and precision-oriented personality. In life, as in her art, Mandira is constantly focused on the tiny details that make up the larger canvases of our existence.

Mandira is currently engaged in creating her next body of artworks, and working on individually commissioned pieces. To contact the artist, please email her at mandira@mandira.me.