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T. K. Padmini T. K. Padmini is a painter from Kerala, India.Born on May 12, 1940 in Kadancheri, a small village off Ponani, a coastal town of Kerala, T. K. Padmini has been a strong feminine presence in the history of painting in Kerala. She had her education at A. V. High School, Ponani. She had a brief course of training from Mr. K.L. Devassi, the arts teacher of A.V. High School and Mr. K.M. Vasudevan Namboodiri (Artist Namboodiri), the well known painter, sculptor and illustrator. She joined the College of Fine Arts and Crafts at Chennai (formerly Madras) in 1961 under the guidence of Principal K.C.S. Panikkar. She had worked in Madras Vidyodaya Girls High School, Adarsh Vidyalaya Matriculation School and Children's Garden School, as teacher. In May 1968 she married her co-student and well-known painter K. Damodaran. Awards: Madras State Lalit Kala Academy ’63 highly commended certificate for the painting ‘Growth’, Madras State Lalit Kala Academy ’67 Award for ‘Dreamland’, Madras State Lalit Kala Academy ’67 Award for ‘Dawn’, A.Y.P.S. ’65 Award for ‘Women’. T. K. Padmini died on 11th may 1969 due to complications in delivery.86
paintings of T.K. Padmini have been displayed at the Durbar Hall
Gallery of Kerala Lalithakala Akademi in Kochi and a few drawings
have been kept in the archives of the Akademi in Thrissur. Padmini’s
paintings are also displayed in the collection of the National Gallery
of Modern Art, Madras (‘Portrait’ and ‘Burial
Ground’), Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad apart from private
collections in India and abroad. A few paintings and drawings have
been displayed at her website.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
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