Hand drawn screenprint

Framed

97 x 73cm

Unique copy

Indian Women

I have long been drawn to Indian women as a subject.  At first I was attracted to their difference, I think. The fold and fall of the sari, the vivid, mesmerizing colour combinations that we don’t see in the West. But what started out as observations of women going about their lives evolved into something much more meaningful to me - a narrative of the roles available to Indian women. Take Dipti from the first Indian Women series, splendid in a hot-pink sari, bearing her votive oil lamps. It’s her role to lay them at the entrance to a home and welcome the goddess of wealth – Lakshmi won't enter a dark home at Diwali. But bearing dipti gives her another role too. The tea-lights are lit to banish the shadows of ignorance. So she’s also woman as a standard bearer of enlightenment, lighting a path to knowledge.

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