Flying Figure

Madhvi Parekh’s early work, such as Flying Figure, was nuanced by the influence of the likes of Paul Klee and Joan Miro, using a language of stunted, stubbed lines and dots that create individual patterns while adding substance to the overall vision of the artist’s attempt to arrive at a complete narrative. Klee’s influence on Parekh’s art—through his picture book gifted to the artist by her husband—in setting her creativity in motion is much celebrated. However, Parekh individualised that influence by adding imagined folk elements uniquely her own, as amply evident in this busy ink work.