Rachana Gopakumar
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
– Pablo Picasso
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
– Salvador Dali
– Salvador Dali
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
– Leo Tolstoy
– Leo Tolstoy
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
– Vincent van Gogh
– Vincent van Gogh
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When art and passion come together...
Art is a way of life for Rachana. Indeed, it is in every breath she takes. Her passion for creating beautiful things expressed itself early on in her life, starting with her first art exhibition as a teenager. She exhibited at the Taj Residency in Vizag showcasing pastels and water colour art.
She later moved to Hyderabad to pursue fashion design from NIFT. Subsequently, she started her career in jewellery design with Normak Fashions (P) Ltd.
Rachana then moved to Mumbai and immersed herself in learning and perfecting various expressions of art and craft from painting, her first love, to complex 3D murals in paper mache, clay, marble powder and other material.
Her repertoire expanded to various forms of paper craft like newspaper sculpture, quilling, punchcraft and many more. This led naturally to participation in art collections like “The 2010 culture art collection “(group exhibition) @ World Trade Centre Mumbai. Rachana's vivid designs and expressions were met with runaway success and several professional orders and solo exhibitions flowed.
Chitra Santhe, which is a calendar event for artists hosted in Bengaluru had been a huge success and the encouragement she received during the event accelerated her endeavour to establish herself as a professional artist, she has exhibited her work at Chitra Santhe between 2018 – 2021.
During the Pandemic, Rachana participated in various competitions and exhibitions, which won her several awards and accolades, both at the National and International level.
Rachana draws her inspiration from animals especially, for her artworks. She enjoys doing realistic art of animals and portraits the most. Growing up with pets has taught her to understand these beings in a very special way. Their emotions, gestures and expressions fascinate her. She finds their eyes are most captivating, that speak in a million ways. In her journey as an artist, she has endeavoured to convey animal emotions in her paintings and prints, as seen through her eyes.
Art has also been something Rachana has always enjoyed teaching - shaping minds and creativity with the techniques she has perfected over the years. Rachana would also like to add value to people around her, by spreading her knowledge with young budding artists. More importantly, she would like to give voice to the voiceless and protect the wellbeing of animals.
Located in Bengaluru now, she continues to teach art at her studio “Artistique. She also takes up commissioned portraits as well as art orders.
Professionally, Rachana strives to influence impressionable minds through her artwork with compositions relaying a strong message. She usually does realistic portraits of animals and hopes to have exhibitions globally and work with world-renowned artists. She plans to make her studio “Artistique” commercially viable, blending various techniques of Painting, with innovation in Printmaking, to set the benchmark in the field of Art.
Art is a way of life for Rachana. Indeed, it is in every breath she takes. Her passion for creating beautiful things expressed itself early on in her life, starting with her first art exhibition as a teenager. She exhibited at the Taj Residency in Vizag showcasing pastels and water colour art.
She later moved to Hyderabad to pursue fashion design from NIFT. Subsequently, she started her career in jewellery design with Normak Fashions (P) Ltd.
Rachana then moved to Mumbai and immersed herself in learning and perfecting various expressions of art and craft from painting, her first love, to complex 3D murals in paper mache, clay, marble powder and other material.
Her repertoire expanded to various forms of paper craft like newspaper sculpture, quilling, punchcraft and many more. This led naturally to participation in art collections like “The 2010 culture art collection “(group exhibition) @ World Trade Centre Mumbai. Rachana's vivid designs and expressions were met with runaway success and several professional orders and solo exhibitions flowed.
Chitra Santhe, which is a calendar event for artists hosted in Bengaluru had been a huge success and the encouragement she received during the event accelerated her endeavour to establish herself as a professional artist, she has exhibited her work at Chitra Santhe between 2018 – 2021.
During the Pandemic, Rachana participated in various competitions and exhibitions, which won her several awards and accolades, both at the National and International level.
Rachana draws her inspiration from animals especially, for her artworks. She enjoys doing realistic art of animals and portraits the most. Growing up with pets has taught her to understand these beings in a very special way. Their emotions, gestures and expressions fascinate her. She finds their eyes are most captivating, that speak in a million ways. In her journey as an artist, she has endeavoured to convey animal emotions in her paintings and prints, as seen through her eyes.
Art has also been something Rachana has always enjoyed teaching - shaping minds and creativity with the techniques she has perfected over the years. Rachana would also like to add value to people around her, by spreading her knowledge with young budding artists. More importantly, she would like to give voice to the voiceless and protect the wellbeing of animals.
Located in Bengaluru now, she continues to teach art at her studio “Artistique. She also takes up commissioned portraits as well as art orders.
Professionally, Rachana strives to influence impressionable minds through her artwork with compositions relaying a strong message. She usually does realistic portraits of animals and hopes to have exhibitions globally and work with world-renowned artists. She plans to make her studio “Artistique” commercially viable, blending various techniques of Painting, with innovation in Printmaking, to set the benchmark in the field of Art.
| BVA ( Graphics )2022 |
| 2008 | Solo Exhibition@ Powai Fest, Mumbai 2008 |
| 2022 | 81st All India Annual Art Exhibition, by Hyderabad Art Society from March 13th to April 10th, 2022 with my selected artwork. |
| 2022 | 130th Bombay Art Society Exhibition @Jehangir Art gallery between March 1st to 7th, 2022 with 2 selected artworks. |
| 2021 | Exhibited in the group exhibition “Tactile traces of tangent thoughts” @ Venkatappa art gallery, Bangalore from April 9th – 15th during the pandemic. |
| 2021 | Exhibited in the 18th Chitra Santhe, Bangalore, 2021 |
| 2021 | “Soulful Strokes” Exhibition @Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru, December 2021. |
| 2020 | Participated in Ukraine Print Exchange 2020. |
| 2019 | Exhibited in the 16th Chitra Santhe, Bengaluru, 2019 |
| 2018 | Exhibited in the 15th Chitra Santhe, Bengaluru, 2018. |
| 2017 | Group exhibition “Myriad” @ Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru, on Dec 1st - 4th, 2017 (with other students of award winner, Sri Kanth Raj). |
| 2010 | “The 2010 culture art collection “(group exhibition) @ World Trade Centre,Mumbai |
| 1990 | Taj Residency@Visakhapatnam 1990 (group exhibition) |
| 2022 | All India Women's National exhibition of Art @ Kalaburagi, March 13th to April 10th, 2022, with my prize winning entry selected by the jury. |
| 2022 | 104th Annual Art Exhibition by The Art Society of India from March 13th to 31st, 2022 with 2 selected artworks. |
| 2021 | Participated in the Indo - Morocco virtual International Art Exhibition on Facebook organized by Pancharothi, July 2021. |
| 2021 | Participant in online Winter Art Showcase, conducted by Sarbha Bharatiya Creative Cultural Foundation. |
| 2021 | Participant in “Freedom 2021” A Special Edition of International Online Exhibition of World Contemporary Art in collaboration with 7 countries, conducted by Positive Energy Art Foundation, August 2021. |
| 2021 | Participant & Exhibitor in Picasso Award competition, conducted by Birendra Memorial Fine Art and Culture, June 2021. |
| 2021 | Exhibitor in “Colours of Independence 75 years of art” organized by The Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, August - December 2021. |
| 2021 | Certificate of Participation & Honor @ the International Online Art Camp, organized by Artreion, September2021. |
| 2021 | Anniversary Special, Intl. group exhibition presented by Art Artist Adda Online Gallery, June 2021. |
| 2021 | “The dark horse” online art exhibition by Art & Artist officially, June 2021. |
| 2022 | Jury award in memory of Late Prof. Antayakula Paidi Raju, for Printmaking, with momento and cash prize of Rs. 5000, from Varnika, Kalaburagi, March 2022. |
| 2022 | Great Artist Award, presented by Swadesh India Book of Records, January 2022. |
| 2022 | Golden Women Artist Award, with trophy from Graphico Design March 2022 |
| 2022 | Bharat Shiksha Puraskar, January 2022. |
| 2021 | Winner of “expressions behind the mask” competition, Kalamani Gobal Award, conducted by Creations (Satya Global Regd. Society), September 2021. |
| 2021 | Universal Artist Award, Ranked #25, conducted by Kalaratnam Foundation of Art Society, Bareilly, India, June 2021. |
| 2021 | Special Artist Award from Swadesh India Book of Records, October 2021. |
| 2021 | Silver Medal awarded by Artreion, Maharashtra, July 2021. |
| 2021 | Silpoguru Abanindranath Tagore art o model award on behalf of Art O Model Dev. Org., W.B., July 2021. |
| 2021 | Seal of best artist across India as per survey by Art War Space, May 2021. |
| 2021 | Rashtriya Nirman Ratna Award from National Academy of Art Education - 2021. |
| 2021 | Raja Ravi Verma Swadesh Shree Award, from Swadesh Sansthan India, October 2021. |
| 2021 | Platinum award and Medal in October, 2021. |
| 2021 | Picasso Excellence award & trophy conducted by Birendra Memorial Fine Art & Culture, June 2021. |
| 2021 | National Women Excellence Award from National Academy of Art Education - 2021. |
| 2021 | MSR Top 20 art award for the theme “Portraits”conducted by International Artist Touch Academy, July 2021. |
| 2021 | MBR APJ Abdul Kalam Award, Best Achiever’s Award for Printmaking, Magic Book of Records, November 2021 |
| 2021 | Kalaratnam Trophy and award in September 2021. |
| 2021 | India Star Iconic Personality Achievers Award (Printmaking) from National Academy of Art Education - 2021. |
| 2021 | Honor Certificate for the theme “horses” conducted by International Artist Touch Academy in the M.S.R. Art Competition, August 2021. |
| 2021 | Gold Medal awarded by International Art Society of Fine Art, July 2021. |
| 2021 | Gold Medal awarded by Indian Royal Academy of Art & Culture, July 2021. |
| 2021 | Genius of India Award (Printmaker, Artist), presented by Swadesh India Book of Records, October 2021. |
| 2021 | Diamond achievers award in the International womens artists achievers award June 2021, conducted by Indian Art Fair. |
| 2021 | Chitrakalaratnam International Award Padak in the competition “Janani”, from Delhi Art, November 2021. |
| 2021 | Certificate of Honor in the exhibition, “Samvedna” conducted by NIFAA - Fine arts wing & Surbhi Art Institute, Hisar March 2021. |
| 2021 | Certificate of Honor in 2nd National level online exhibition “The Dark Horse”, organized by Art & Artist Official.com July 2021. |
| 2021 | Certificate of Honor for selection in The Jungle Jasmine Art Magazine Edition 3, Publication by Art & Artist, October 2021. |
| 2021 | Certificate of Achievement, for Top Painting Award, Kalamani Gobal Award, conducted by Creations (Satya Global Regd. Society). |
| 2021 | Best Mural award in 5th Online exhibition and competition “The Trends” from Kalakunj, December 2021. |
| 2021 | Best Award for Drawing / Painting, conducted by Kalaratnam Foundation of Art Society, Bareilly, India, July 2021. |
| 2021 | Best Appreciation International artist award, ranked #7, conducted by Delhi Art & Culture, June 2021. |
| 2021 | Award Golden Medal Winner in the International Online Summer Art Expo 2021, organized by Colour Wings Art Org., associated with Nabankur Kala Foundation, July 2021. |
| 2021 | Asia’s top 100, Excellence as an Artist( Printmaker) AIWA 2021, Diva planet magazine. |
| 2021 | 1st in Online Painting competition, conducted by Talent Boosters, July 2021. |
| 2021 | 1st in Online Painting competition, conducted by All Art Competition, June, 2021. |
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
– Leonardo da Vinci
– Leonardo da Vinci
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
– Michelangelo
– Michelangelo
