Therefore, in between assignments,
she began making genuine stained glass wall hangings,
in both opaque and clear glass forms. Instead of wielding
a brush dipped in paints, she chooses suitable coloured
glass, trims them to shape and then joins them into
the desired pattern. This lends her artwork a distinct
eye-catching relief. These are then mounted in frames
like any painted canvas, without covering it with a
glass pane. As far as possible, she has made her wall
hangings in matching pairs; to create harmony on either
side of an entrance door and window, or just across
a wall. Most of her works are from stained glass design
magazines, old masters or of her own creations. This
exhibition, which has close to fifty such pieces, is
a collection spread over four years.
She has given two live demonstrations of this form
of art- once on Hyderabad Doordarshan, as well as on
ETV, a local TV channel. She has been interviewed many
times by newspapers and magazines. In 1998, while she
was in the USA, she took part in a competition organised
by, 'Delphi Stained Glass Catalogue,' a leading trade
magazine. She won a prize in their 1988-1999 Delphi
catalogue, for one of her works accepted and published
in their magazine, with a nice write-up.
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