I’m Chandranandinee. People call me “Chandnie” for short.

I'm a painter-sculptor from Bangalore, India. I live and work in Bangalore and in Paris where I am now also into research. My parents say I started painting at age two, while on my part too, I certainly do remember my antics in painting eating into my daily childhood siesta. In 1986, my school put my works up in an international group show in New Delhi organized by the USO-UNESCO when I was eleven. I had my first solo show at nineteen and have ever since tried to keep the work going year after year and let my art discover and enrich itself despite all my art-school meanderings and misadventures, ideological conflicts and the nihilism, all of which is actually not too unknown to us artists! As an adolescent I was at the erstwhile Kalaniketan in Bangalore training parallely in Fine Arts for a while, but stayed on only till I broke into my first show in ’93. But as a sculptor, which I got to be only recently, I did a course at Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) Paris and seem to want to take my learning the classical way.

There’s a page on this website called “Work” that might get you across to my journey as an artist.

If you ask me, for one, there’s no bigger misery for an artist to be caught in a quagmire of single recurrent themes. Exploring themes and evolving style and technique is not only fundamental to an artist but also enriching I tried to get myself working through subjects crossing over literature, cinema and music through attempts such as Raaga-Chitrana (visual interpretation of the Raaga Malkauns of classical Indian music, and, Payana meaning Journey, that was an art and light installation. I have a Master (formerly DEA) in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Rouen and my current research in France is in the Aesthetics and Philosophy of the dynamic image in literature and cinema. For another, crossing over cultures is vital for growth as an artist. Last October, I was invited as the Artist in Residence by the French Ministry of Art and Culture to a place called l’Isle d’Abeau, 30 kms from the city of Lyon. During my residency, I travelled extensively in the countryside of south-central France on a terrain that rose and fell like a piece of romantic poetry, which was when I realized that there is a growing passion in me for finding art hidden in the dialectics of Nature.