Abstract Painting

Maitrry P Shah is an award winning internationally recognized contemporary Indian artist. She is an expressive and imaginative painter. She has evolved a highly individual style, deeply contemporary in its sensibilities. Maitrry shah was born in 1987 in Ahemdabad, Gujarat. She spent her childhood at Gandhinagar, capital of Gujarat. During her early childhood, the little girl started painting nature. She started reading books in Art and Artists. Her parents give her motivation in different aspects in art. She comes to know that only with colors and brush, another world can be created. She accepted this as challenge and from the day onwards the journey began which is still going on. With study, she started to create paintings and participating in different art competitions. She got her first international award “Silver Medal” in 10th Kanagawa biennial word art completion from kanagawa prefecture japan in 1999, when she was just 12 years old. Maitrry P shah was very brilliant in her academics also. In 10th Standard she stood 3rd in the center Gandhinagar, Gujarat Board 2002. Due to inclination to study as well, she took admission in the 12th science 2004. With a great score, she took an admission in Vishwakarma Computer Engineering in Government engineering college, Ahmedabad 2008. After that she pursued her Masters in Software Engineering from India’s top Engineering College BITS, Pilani. She got job in very reputed IT companies, but still her inclination towards art, never stopped and she continuing her journey parallel with arts too. From her job, she went to USA 2013, there also she visited some reputed art galleries like National Gallery of art Washington, MoMa New York, Elder Gallery of contemporary art Charlotte etc. From those she got lots of inspirations and she started her solo shows and Group shows. Her work got selected in many national and international art exhibitions. She got 3 international awards in Art, 13 national awards among them 10 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 1 silver crown, 6 state level awards and certifications. Maitrry P Shah is known as an expressive painter, mostly her paintings are created in various mediums like Oil, Acrylic, Oil pastels and mixed media. Maitrry has evolved highly individual style, deeply contemporary in its sensibilities. Her paintings are best known for human expressions especially in woman. In her paintings you will come across different expressions of woman like love, happiness, despair, sadness.