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kota
neelima
Kota Neelima has been a newspaper journalist for 15 years and is an author of two novels on
rural India. She studied painting at the Arpana Caur’s Academy of Fine Arts and Literature in
New Delhi. In imagery that has traversed from nature-scapes to abstraction and increasingly
now impressionist-abstraction her palette is subtle and her medium oil on canvas. Following
her first solo exhibition in Delhi in 2006, Neelima’s work has been exhibited in other solo
and group shows at Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore, including Sanjha Safar, organized as
an outreach event of the International Federalism conference by Government of India and
Legends of India- organized by the ICCR. Her works are part of personal art collections in India
and Europe. Kota lives and works in Delhi.
The divine light selects its messenger from a world full of people, the one who has
the strength to live through the lessons of life for the salvation of others, the one
who can transcend desire and death, truth and fact, being and belief. The eternal
search for the messiah is timeless and contemporary, individual and collective,
routine and historic. The painting, `Illumination’, portrays the dawn bringing
lotuses into light from darkness and depicts the constant search for the messiah
within each one of us.
Illumination | 36” x 36” | Oil on canvas | 2011
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