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"Rekha draws on a wide variety of Indian aesthetic traditions. Surface patterning and ornament establish rhythm as in folk arts. Her iconic compositions of single frontal figures invoke the use of art for devotion. Her themes of women in exquisite natural and interior settings and her use of colours for emotive expression recall, and sometimes quote, works from the great Rajput tradition. More fundamentally, the paintings ascribe to that aim... "Rekha draws on a wide variety of Indian aesthetic traditions. Surface patterning and ornament establish rhythm as in folk arts. Her iconic compositions of single frontal figures invoke the use of art for devotion. Her themes of women in exquisite natural and interior settings and her use of colours for emotive expression recall, and sometimes quote, works from the great Rajput tradition. More fundamentally, the paintings ascribe to that aim of ancient classical art; the capacity to invoke and therefore unite distinct aesthetic experience in their flow of rash". (Karim Miller-Lewis, "Bye Bye Baby!" Sakshi Gallery exhibition catalogue)

"With minimal, restrained gestures, the figures in Rodwittiya`s paintings stitch, measure and sutine, celebrating the female powers of nurture, creation and healing. Even when figures are incarcerated… the emphasis is on female creativity, the woman is an active agent who has control over her body and mind." (Nancy Adijania, Indian Contemporary Fine Art, Saffronart & Apparao Galleries Los Angeles exhibition catalogue)

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