Rachna Garodia: Woven Walks
With this collection of works Rachna Garodia continues to express a quiet connection with the natural world. As an artist, forager, weaver and maker Rachna draws upon the beauty of quietude and silence through her daily walks. She weaves a slower and a calmer world around her through her tapestries. While being self-reflective and meditative in her approach, Rachna explores small and large weaves on and off the traditional loom, challenging the boundaries of weaving.
Rachna’s intricately woven textures are akin to viewing a landscape, capturing the atmosphere, tone, and emotion from her daily walks. 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 and twigs. All her works are unique; each takes shape slowly in her studio in West London.
Rachna trained at the prestigious National Institute of Design in India and The Royal School of Needlework in London. Her work predominantly involves hand embroidery and weaving. Rachna’s book Contemporary Weaving in Mixed Media was published by Batsford in 2022. Her commissioned pieces are held in private collections in India, London and America.