For 40 years, even since she graduated from the JJ school of Arts in 1972 and followed it up with a course in textile designing, Suhaas Manjrekar-Pole has worked magic with batik paintings. “I found it very challenging as it requires a lot of skillu00a0and patience. u00a0What added to the allure was the fact that there were no exponents of this art who could paint human figures in Batik. Although I paint in both oil and water colour, I enjoy Batik the most,” she says.

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Batik paintings titled Duet
Poles’s paintings are more folk-inspired. She says she gets attracted to vibrant colours and finds them immensely interesting. “I constantly observe things around me. I go through a lot of magazines and if I find something appealing I decide to paint it,” she explains. Pole’s paintings are woman-centric. She says, “My paintings are dedicated to cherish women. I can explore with lot of colours while painting. Women–centric themes adds allure to my paintings.”

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