Lekha Shastry
Pattern, rhythm, and textured detail define Lekha Shastry’s visual practice. With a foundation in textile design, her work reflects a sensitivity to surface, repetition, and craft, translating everyday environments into layered, contemplative compositions. Her paintings exist between memory and imagination, drawing from familiar spaces, courtyards, terraces, stairways, and quiet domestic settings, reimagined as lyrical, dreamlike worlds. Influenced by Indian folklore and miniature traditions, her compositions often weave together plants, animals, and architectural fragments into surreal visual narratives that feel both intimate and expansive. Working across mediums including gouache, digital illustration, textiles, and large-scale murals, Shastry extends this language into public and spatial contexts. Whether on paper or across architectural surfaces, her practice explores the tension between the real and imagined, creating environments that are rooted in observation yet transformed through colour, rhythm, and form.
Selected Exhibitions
- Open Fences (2026), Gallery XXL, New Delhi
- Art for Concern (2025)
- Art and Charlie (2024), Mumbai
Awards & Residencies
- Asia Arts Future Award, Asia Society (2025)
- Chandon India Artist Partner (2023)
“My work begins with spaces I’ve known—courtyards, terraces, everyday corners—and then slowly shifts into something imagined. Through pattern, colour, and detail, I try to build worlds that feel both personal and familiar.”
