REKHA RODWITTIYA (B.1958)

"Caught within the intricacies of adult angst where the undercurrent of pain was recognized though not fully understood by me, the drawn or constructed image became very early a means of deciphering all that I accumulated from observing....my sense of empathy with the drawn image was that it offered a physicality and established a concretizing of the otherwise intangible. It became a method, as I perceive it in retrospect, of creating a dialogue that gave meaning to a psychological realm.”
The strong images of Rekha Rodwittya easily bewilder any male gaze directed upon them. The women in her paintings reflect a quarrel between tradition and femininity. This quarrel emphasizes giving back to society, which has inflicted upon its own, with assertiveness.