Artist Profile

About Artist

Kanchan's art particularly of the last decade is the art of assertion, of the domestic centricity of feminine experience, of an iconic feminine energy, and of her easy appropriation of the idea of the mythic divine feminine. From her preoccupation with the Bhoota figures of Karnataka, tribal figures and images of the Shakti cult, she has made identifiable images of feminine power. In her later works, the presence of a child figure, toys etc. speak of the i ...