JUHI PALAN

Juhi Palan is an artist based in Gujarat, India. Through her works, she explores the themes of harmony, sustainability, folklore, mythology, growth, human relationships, and identity. Academically, she has completed her M.A. in English and has studied art from a well known artist, the late Shri Balwantbhai Joshi.

She works in mainly two styles, Gujarati folk art as well as mathematically inspired mandalas, although she has recently forayed into realistic art, including landscapes. For Juhi, art is an exploration, not only of mediums (oil, watercolour, acrylic), surfaces (canvas, fabric, board, paper) and techniques (pointillism, use of negative space and even embroidery!), but also of ideas and narratives.

Her love for mathematics drives her to answer, through her mandalas, the question: in how many different ways can a single shape be explored? That is to say, how many ways exist to divide the same 360 degrees. Her works in the folk art style, on the other hand, allow her to discern and document wisdom found in not-so-formal avenues of learning.