Ridhi'sGallery
Paintings, glass work, watercolour studies and quiet experiments — an evolving collection from a practice that began with a borrowed set of brushes and never really stopped.
Artist & painter Exhibition view
Dhaka · 2026
A relationship with
colour and patience
Nine years of paintings, mirror-work glass panels, fabric studies and watercolour canvases. Some were made in a single sitting; others waited months for the right afternoon light.
Work that starts
with noticing
Ridhi's practice is rooted in curiosity — an ongoing exploration of colour, gesture, texture and the quiet emotions that live between moments.
She moves easily between media: oil and acrylic on canvas, glass painting with mirror and bead work inherited from a family tradition, watercolour canvases painted from memory, and fabric she paints by hand. What holds it together is a way of looking rather than a single style.
Read Ridhi's storyEvery canvas begins with a feeling before it becomes an image.
Visual diary
Details, edges and unfinished corners — close looks at surfaces from works in the archive, photographed in the studio.
The person,
the process,
the story.
Ridhi approaches painting as a space for observation and experimentation. Her work moves between instinct and intention, letting colour, texture and gesture gradually shape the final composition.
She works from a small studio in Dhaka, where canvases lean against the wall in rotation and half-finished sheets of glass wait on the table. Some pieces come from memory — a bridge in a garden, a boat returning at dusk. Others come from whatever is directly in front of her: a rooftop view, a branch of krishnachura, a length of fabric.
Her earliest training came from her family's glass-painting practice, where every figure is outlined first and then filled with colour, mirror and bead work. That discipline — the patience of the outline before the pleasure of the colour — still shapes everything she makes.
The artist
Ridhi has been painting since she was eleven, first in the margins of school notebooks and then, seriously, on canvas. She is largely self-taught, with a habit of learning by copying what she admires until she understands how it was built — and then doing it her own way. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in Dhaka and lives, mostly, in the homes of people she knows.
The process
Every piece begins with drawing. Outlines go down in pencil or liner, and only once the structure is settled does colour arrive — thin washes first, then denser layers, then the small decisions that take the longest: a highlight on water, a bead at the edge of a skirt. She works slowly and keeps several pieces open at once so nothing gets overworked in a single sitting.
The inspiration
Bengali folk motifs, the choreography of dance, monsoon light, gardens, river boats, and the particular green that appears on Dhaka rooftops after rain. She is drawn to subjects that are already loved by many people and tries to find the version of them that is hers.
Art is not always about answers.
Sometimes it is about noticing what was already there.
Materials & making
A short summary of how the work is made and where it has been shown.
- Based in
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Media
- Oil, acrylic, watercolour, glass paint, hand-painted silk, ink
- Available for
- Commissions, exhibitions, collaborations
The Gallery
A growing archive of paintings, studies, experiments and moments from the studio.
Let's connect
For collaborations, exhibitions, commissions, creative projects or simply to say hello, get in touch.
- Phone
- +880 1719 482 306
- Studio
- Road 11, Dhanmondi
Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh - Studio hours
- Saturday – Thursday
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Message sent
Thank you for writing. Ridhi reads every message and usually replies within two or three days.
Commissions
Ridhi takes a small number of commissions each year — portraits, folk-motif panels and landscape canvases in oil, acrylic or glass paint. Write with the size you have in mind and where the piece will hang, and she'll reply with what's possible and a timeline.
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