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Arpita Singh, born in 1937, began her professional life as a designer and textile consultant at the Weaver's Service Center in Kolkata and New Delhi. It was this experience that honed the artist's skills with decoration and patterns - skills which she continues to use to construct and ornament the narratives that underlie and inform her paintings.

Though they may at first seem esoteric and even stylistically naive, each of Singh's... Arpita Singh, born in 1937, began her professional life as a designer and textile consultant at the Weaver's Service Center in Kolkata and New Delhi. It was this experience that honed the artist's skills with decoration and patterns - skills which she continues to use to construct and ornament the narratives that underlie and inform her paintings.

Though they may at first seem esoteric and even stylistically naive, each of Singh's paintings has an important story to tell. Her works "…celebrate the rituals of family life while questioning the myth of cosy domesticity. Her palette is brightly coloured and exuberant, but her themes can be dark and daunting. She paints people she knows - family, friends, neighbours - surrounded by an assortment of everyday objects. Flowers, teapots, and pillows appear alongside guns, knives, and aeroplanes" (Amrita Jhaveri, A Guide to 101 Modern & Contemporary Indian Artists, India Book House, Mumbai, 2005, p. 84).

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