To ponder over Rithika Merchant’s richly detailed paintings is to go down a rabbit hole. Hybrid creatures—half-human, half-animal—totemic iconography and botanical imagery populate the strange and fantastical worlds that this artist dreams up.
Working out of her studio in Barcelona, she employs the gauche and ink technique on stained paper to achieve desaturated or muted colours that lend each of her creations an ethereal, almost otherworldly quality.
Read more about this most intriguing artist @rithikamerchant on @designpataki (The link’s in my bio.)
If in Bombay, you can check out some of her work at @tarqmumbai. It’s part of the really cool group show titled Osmosis, curated by @shaleenwadhwana
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