About the Artist

ashmi Parakkal is an exploratory artist with a creative outlook towards every aspect of life. Growing up amidst the vividly colourful traditions, culture, people and ethereal landscape of Kerala, India, thoroughly inspired her innate artistic inclinations, blossoming into art journeys through childhood and adulthood. Her fascination for both art and Indian music (carnatic), complemented each other during her growing years, enhancing a variety of her creative dimensions . After post graduating in Nutrition and an absorbing stint in teaching ,her longing and enthusiasm for art and music got the better of her as she also deep-dived into the chaotic happiness of homemaking and motherhood.

Over the years, the constant learner in her ventured into the path of yoga and martial art (kalaripayattu) further ensuring that her key to happiness has been her yearning for versatility. This yearning translated and invariably reflected in her art explorations on various mediums, styles, techniques and surfaces.

Rashmi’s childhood years waded into water colours and her earliest themes celebrated the aesthetic festivities of her roots. The art contests and exhibitions during her academic years fostered her exposure and proficiency, enabling her experiments with oil, acrylic, glass, fabric, wood, gold-foil, mix media,3d art with ceramics and clay.

Rashmi believes that art facilitates a platform to align with who we truly are, thereby her vibrant personality dominates her canvasses as bright colors and textures. She engages in art as an extension of real life, a heterogenous mix of contrasting outlooks, dimensions, a space to live the realistic yet fictitious. Being a commissioned artist, she conceptualizes diverse art themes for her clients, varying from traditional Indian murals, spirituality and nature to portraits, abstracts and whacky tale-telling caricatures.

Rashmi’s creative goals at conceiving art that connects to the lighter side of life finds expression through her witty caricatures. Her personalized caricatures are unique stories ,highlighting a slice of life of the personalities, their traits, philosophies, hobbies and friendships. Occasionally, she dramatizes her caricatures as comparable characters from stories, history or mythology making her art-humor truly inventive. Rashmi relishes caricaturing as a channel to cumulate simple joys into the lives of people, and each of her 100 odd caricatures have been welcomed well with hearty laughter’s.

While she believes there’s a lot more for her to adventure and capture during the course of her life, her crazy romance with the inquisitive spirit of art continues, networking with art lovers through her social media presence.