Aditi Deodhar

Hi,
I am Aditi Deodhar.

I have been sketching since I was 6 years old. It all started with my mon sending me off to a drawing class in the summer vacations, after the 1st standard exams.
I hated it initially, as it meant me attending a class while my friends played.

But the teacher was great. I began enjoying the class and drawing. I participated in various drawing competitions, thereafter, won some prizes. The biggest part of it was the enjoyment I got and the passion I gradually developed.

Crayons and sketch pens eventually changed into watercolors, acrylics and oil paints; the passion only increased.

In high school, I was fortunate to have a very good and dedicated drawing teacher. That time I was into pencil sketches and portraits. Many cricketers, movie stars were the subject of my portraits then.

In my second year of graduation, I joined Mr. Bal Wad’s Creative Club. There I started enjoyed painting as much as sketching. I learnt patience from Wad sir, which was not a my very good quality till then. Patience to practice, patience to work hard till idea is as perfect on the paper as it is in my head. For the next 10 years, I worked with acrylics.

Once at an exhibition with my friend, we met an art stu...

I hold a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a post-graduate degree in “Industrial Mathematics with Computer Application”.

I worked as software developer with Mahindra British Telecom (now Tech Mahindra) and Persistent Systems Ltd.

When I took a break for my son, I did not feel like going back to the full-time IT career. I decided to explore, try out new things. During my explorations, I worked with a NGO as a software consultant for 3 years.

In the year 2012-13, I completed post-graduate diploma in “Sustainable Natural Resources Management” from Ecological Society.

Ecological Society is the institute founded by eminent ecologist Prakash Gole.
This course was in a way, end to my explorations and beginning of the new ones.