Gayatri Tambe-Deshpande
Born on 7th June 1975 in Nagpur.... Gayatri was brought up in Pune. She is a Pune based artist now. Painting was always her passion. After successful schooling with really good grades, she followed her passion by taking admission in the esteemed Art School in Pune - The Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya. After her training in the faculty of Fine Arts (drawing and painting), she passed out with flying colours in 1995 to further pursue her dreams. Gayatri’s works gathered several prizes and awards at exhibitions conducted by different Art Societies. To start with she exhibited her works through several group shows.... At, NCPA Mumbai in 1992, ‘Different Strokes’ in Pune in 1996, at Café Sunrise in Pune in 1998, .... Gayatri then got an opportunity to work as an Art Teacher at a very renowned school in Pune. She is a painter who feels great satisfaction painting as well as teaching art to the young artists. You can see her carrying out different activities and the great pleasure she has doing that. She is a proud mother of a fine 25-year-old girl. Gayatri got back to painting after years of serving for her job and family, to be true to her calling, to follow her dream.
Her works have been exhibited at The Jehangir Art Gallery in April 2011; the Tilting Art
Gallery, Pune, 2012; the Art2day Gallery, Pune, 2013; the Monalisa Kalagram, Pune, 2014;
a solo show at the PNG Art Gallery Pune, 2015; a group show at the Mahua Art Gallery,
Bangalore, 2017; Kian Casa Gallery, Pune in Oct. 2020, Art Route Art Gallery, Delhi
2022, Solo show at Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai and Monalisa Kalagram Pune in 2022, to
name a few. Some more group shows in Pune and Delhi followed till date. She has been
invited by AWG gallery to be a part of the IAF Parallel show - Fluidity, in 2025 at
Delhi. In Aug. 2025, she exhibited in a group show at the Jehangir art gallery, Mumbai
and Raja Ravi Varma Art Gallery, Pune. Recently, she exhibited at the Stainless art
Gallery in Delhi in March 2026 at a group show organise by Suramya Art Gallery.
Her works have been appreciated and sold in India and abroad too. Her paintings have
been selected and exhibited at various internet portals as well. She has been active in
this field for more than 25 years now, may it be as an artist, an art teacher or a
trainee at some art workshop and even a writer for Pune’s reputed daily, Sakal.
Art has always been an inseparable part of Gayatri and she continues to exhibit her art
globally, physically and online.
Gayatri’s work is primarily done on canvas in acrylics, oil or watercolour. Charcoal on
paper or canvas is her new found love. She hopes to lead the viewer into a resonant
space. She seeks freedom with imagery. Hence, she likes to use the abstract vocabulary.
At the same time, she likes to use some stated imagery as well, so that her work has
both elements to varying degree. As she grew as an artist, she found that she could
express herself better with colours and forms - the things she had no words for. Colours
and forms became reflections of her thoughts... her feelings. It’s pure emotions that
she wanted to offer. She never paints with a strategy... an idea is born and then it
becomes something else. The aim of her art is to represent the inward significance of
things.
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