Manisha                  Puja                   Bandana

Born in a small town Raghopur, of Saharsa district of North, Bihar. Manisha is a self-taught artist who picked up this art from her mother and grandmother very naturally during different festivals. Unlike her mother and grandmother who practiced this art only on floor and wall, Manisha started drawing Madhubani paintings on her textbooks and any paper, which was available to her. She was best athlete of her school and was very active in music and dance.

Manisha receiving Lok Nayak Samman from Jai Prakash Smriti Manch, Vadodara for her works in the field of Madhubani Paintings

After her schooling in Delhi, Manisha completed three years Diploma in interior designing and display from New Delhi Polytechnic For Women.

Following her sister bandana she graduated in architecture from institute of environmental, Design, Vallabh Vidyanagar.

Apart from her school and college work her passion for madhubani paintings kept on increasing. Along with her professional degrees she continued her self-learning process in madhubani painting.

Her educational career gave new dimension and outlook towards her paintings. This can be observed in her works till now.

By the time she finished her Masters in urban and regional planning Manisha had more than 200 madhubani paintings to her credit. It was at this point of time that she thought of exhibiting her works in galleries.

In 1998, first exhibition of Manisha was sponsored by India International Center, New Delhi; in the same year she exhibited her works in Goa and Gujarat. She got lots of appreciation from various art critics, artists and people from all fields.
Since then Manisha has never looked back in her life. She has dedicated her whole life to madhubani paintings.

Manisha along with her sisters has been taking free workshops through out the country, to introduce people from all sections of life on different aspects of Madhubani paintings. Presently Manisha is writing two books on different aspects of Madhubani paintings.

Manisha is working as a freelance architect in Vadodara and New Delhi. She has been a visiting faculty in different architecture schools of Vadodara.
 

AWARDS:

Selected by all India fine arts and crafts society New Delhi, for their annual show. (Dec '98 - Jan '99)

Paper presented:

In the seminar on Philosophy of Indian art and value oriented education”
My topic was:

“Madhubani a tradition of folk paintings.”

The seminar was 0rganized by International forum for India’s heritage and National Museum, New Delhi. From - 18, 19, 20th of Jan ‘03.
 

Manisha with Dr. Jyotinder Jain & noted Art Historian
Prof. Ratan Parimoo

BANDANA JHA

Born in Raghopur, of Saharsa district in Bihar bandana was second child of her parents. She did her schooling from Delhi. Since her childhood bandana was extraordinary in studies and art. During her schooling she bagged lots of awards out of which silver medal in shanker’s international was most prestigious.

After her schooling Bandana joined architecture course from institute of Environmental Design, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. She finished her course with prestigious Gold medal in architecture in the year 1994 and same year she got married.

Since, then Bandana has been working on wide range of projects like housing, institutional, interiors and research under the guidance of her father Shri. Suresh Jha.

Along with her professional works she joined part time M-Tech course in construction management and building sciences from Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT), New Delhi (2000-2002)

Presently Bandana is working as a Project Manager, Architect & Assoc. Dean
Institute of Design, Engineering and Architecture.

Along with her architectural works Bandana is Faculty at Institute of Design, Engineering & Architecture at Rai foundation Mathura Road, New Delhi.

She was a visiting faculty at:
 

 
Bandana started exhibiting her Madhubani paintings in the year 2000. Her paintings are very bold as coloring and line works are concerned.

PUJA JHA

Youngest of all she was born in Delhi. Along with her schooling from Summer Fields Public School, New- Delhi, Puja was very active in extra curricular activities like sports, music and art. Being so involved with artistic environment at home she joined interior designing course at south Delhi polytechnic for women at lajpat Nagar. Along with her interior designing she joined two years Diploma in fine Arts and Book illustration course from Shaker’s Academy of Fine Arts and Book Illustration, Children’s Book Trust, New Delhi.

Her passion for excellence in art and architecture was never ending, which could be seen in her decision in joining architecture course from institute of environmental design, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat.

After finishing her architecture, Puja started a new journey in her life. She got married and joined Post Graduate Diploma in Planning with specialization in Housing, from Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahemedabad, and this course she completed in the year 2003.

Through out her educational career whenever she got chance she had been working with her father and sisters. She has got vast experience in the field of art, architecture, interior designing and research in fields like planning.
Today Puja is working as Project Associate, at National Institute of Design, Ahemedabad.

Along with her education Puja along with her sisters and mother, has been practicing Madhubani paintings. Her work is quiet colorful and being a fine artist her hand in painting and coloring is little different from her sisters.

Puja joined her sisters in exhibition in the year 2001.
 

Our Exhibitions & Workshops

Our Paintings are in Collection of :

Kala Academy Goa.

Ashok Ghosh, Governor, Rotary Int. 3010