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Durga Kainthola

Artist Durga Kainthola imaginative world is like a deep dream in which we sink readily. The true source of her compelling compositions appears to lie in her personal sensibility and independent mind...a ceremony of psychic import that the artist justifies through the creation of intricate shapes, forms and colors.

The artist spent a great part of her life in Bombay and was captivated by the impressions of bare feet on sandy beaches. "In spite of the absence of the person themselves, their presence seemed to continue, and that is where I found my path as a painter," she says. As she kept looking at the footprints, they grew upon her as impressions on time, took larger dimensions. Excited her senses and dominated her work.