Photorealist painter, Hyderabad
Keerthi Kankipati
Paintings that look like photographs: self-portraits, lotus ponds, the cows of her home, still life and drawings.
Self-Portrait with a Teacup
The series
All 64 works
Self-Portraits
Keerthi paints herself, again and again, each time in a new setting.
8 works
Water Lilies
Lotus leaves, flowers and seed pods, painted drop by drop.
19 works
My Home Cows
The cows of her home, and the empty land around them.
5 works
Portraits & Figures
People close to the artist, painted in fine detail.
3 works
Still Life
Fruit, flowers, copper, glass and cloth, studied in the studio.
19 works
Drawings
Pencil, pen and charcoal on paper, where every painting starts.
10 works
“Anything and everything is an art piece in itself; it is only at the viewer’s behest that ordinary things unravel.”
Selected paintings
About the artist
Keerthi paints what is around her, very closely: her own face, lotus ponds, the cows of her home, fruit and copper pots. The detail is so fine that the paintings look like photographs.
- Born
- 1984, Hyderabad
- BFA
- Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University, 2006
- MFA
- JNAFAU, Hyderabad, 2011
- Works in
- Oil, acrylic, watercolour, pencil and charcoal