LA journal - 68

November 2021

...An online art exhibition curated by IGA Galleria showcases work of six women artists who studied at Kala Bhavan, Santineketan - the school of art nestled in nature, and later pursued their individual journeys. They are reunited through 'Classmates' with their connecting thread remaining nature and landscapes. The works, conceptualized in diverse set of mediums showcase various creative imaginations including fascinating natural world, the region and environmental concerns, while imbibing a deep sense of place and time.

Gallery Space

13 November 2003

...Shweta Raina is a print maker, settled in Delhi. She collects images on her frequent travels and as Pandora would possibly do, she pulls them out of her box in the process of image making. These are transmitted as identities that she often confronts in herself. The white space breaks out into a narration where the protagonist embodies the storyteller. In an effort to resolve the conflict between identities, of self and the other through the process of images making, the story teller in her says "I have lived many lives sometimes like myself sometimes as the other"

74th AIFACS Phase -II

30 March 2002

...AIFACS Cash award of Rs 10,000/- awarded to Shweta Raina (Delhi) (Open Section) for her entry entitled "The Back Drop".

The Statesman

18 October 2002

...Shweta Raina consciously makes her plate threedimensional, so her art communicates the feeling of a flat surface as well as a sculptural third level. This innovation is the result of her experimental nature.

The Statesman

10 September 1999

...Shweta Raina's graphics have no immediate visual connection with music, harmony of images does play a role in her prints and thus her musical verbal commentary was useful. Her plates bring to mind fairy tales and far flung dreams and her use of lait motif technique was interesting.

6 Artists

31 August 1999

...Shweta is a graphic artist, she is originally from Kashmir, but she spent most of her young life outside of Kashmir. Now, as a student of Kala Bhavana, Shweta is in Santineketan for almost 7 years and has adopted much of its local culture. So we do not really find anything 'Kashmiree' in her artworks, but her joyful life of Kala Bhavana and its environment. The works she did in the later period is experimental in ideas and techniques. They show more complex human situation and her dream,- which are executed with matured technical skill- where viscosity and intaglio techniques with multiple plates have been used for successful result.