Artist
Rachna Garodia
Rachna Garodia is a textile artist based in London. Her intricately woven textures are akin to viewing a landscape, capturing the atmosphere, tone and emotion from her daily walks. Material exploration - bringing unexpected textures together in a warp has always been the starting point for Rachna's work. She juxtaposes cotton, linen, silk, nettle, hemp and wool with found materials like paper, bark, seedpods, twigs etc. All her works are unique and bespoke; each one takes shape slowly in her studio in West London and is later crafted into screens, space dividers and framed textile art.
Rachna trained at the prestigious National Institute of Design in India and The Royal School of Needlework in London. Her commissioned pieces are held in private collections in India, U.K and America. Her book ‘Contemporary Weaving in mixed media’ with Batsford was out in September 2022.
“It is liberating to just be led by the materials one is using, rather than trying to lead the material.” - Rachna Garodia
