Lavanya Challa
Lavanya finds opportunities to recreate herself every time she sits at the canvas. Each frame captures and relives the most tender and beautiful experiences of her personal life. Painting professionally now, at first seeking inspiration in nature and then expanding to visually illustrating emotions. Her art represents drama in life through colour.
Lavanya’s free spirit and desire to go beyond expectations, inspire her art. She is constantly engaged in “finding peace in the bad, messy and ugly”. In her childhood, Lavanya found bursts of art even in her mother’s molecular biology lab. As a trained architect, her college days were filled with sketches of building forms; historical, contemporary and imagined. Art by Joan Mitchell, Kandinsky, Rothko, Van Gogh, and Monet, continues to awe her.
Lavanya has lived in Hyderabad and Bengaluru (India), Princeton and Dallas (USA). Her varied life experiences allow her to experiment while enjoying the process of discovery and the jubilation of the outcome. Several years of strokes have led to this moment of livening up a canvas with her imaginative play of colour and joy. Finding relationships between colours, emotions, and nature, Lavanya wants to move people, one painting at a time.