Neerja Tata - Malini Mansukhani

Malini’s passion for drawing and sketching started early in life. After moving to Bangkok about 35 years ago, she began pursuing art more seriously, taking classes with various teachers and embracing new techniques. She also took a course on portraiture at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
She has always been interested in the human face and is excited by the challenge of bringing out not just a likeness but a personality. Sometimes the face is a window into something deeper about the human condition. 
Malini has been featured in several art exhibitions in Bangkok and in the US.

Neerja Tata

Neerja is a trained artist from Odisha, based in Bangkok, and has been painting for more than 30 years. Neerja’s paintings focus on merging the traditional Pattachitra folk art and the Saura tribal art which are the art forms of Odisha.

Her paintings are vibrant and colourful, and she creates these traditional and stylized art forms in a contemporary style. Over the years, she has blended these styles using natural colours and vegetable dyes on silk and canvas. For the last few years, Neerja has been collaborating with Malini and they both have been working on exploring a combination of abstract portraits and techniques inspired by Pattachitra and Saura art.  She has exhibited her paintings in India, US & Thailand. 

Malini and Neerja have  come together in a unique experiment called Warp and Weft. 

 The attempt is to weave together Malini’s expressionist portraiture with

Neerja’s intricate Pattachitra-inspired technique. This collaborative project aims to create a harmonious fusion of these two distinct styles, even as each painter stays true to their own painterly instinct. The inspiration behind this collaboration is the idea that there is no one rule to creating art, and that threading two disparate elements together can create a compelling tapestry.