ARTIST & POET REVEAL - Next Eight

Final set of artists & poets:




Lauren Rudolph is an artist based in New York who works are oil on canvas. She is an art teacher who expresses through her visions and feels connected to her senses from where springs the magic. It also empowers her and gives her the courage of being willing to shed her skin and to be born anew. Her works are mostly soulful and tug the right chords. She has a home-based studio for children called the Little Light Art Studio.




Liz Ramos-Prado is a Peruvian artist who recently completed her MA in Design Management and Cultures at London College of Communication. Her works are in ballpoint pen and her work is a continuous visual exploration of the complexity of the human self, emotions, and relations; inspired by the surroundings, people, and everyday realities taking women as the main subject particularly during this pandemic.




Mini S Menon is a writer and English language trainer based in Kochi, Kerala. She writes poetry and fiction in addition to features on travel and education. She has been published by Grey Oaks and RIC Journal, and her texts have twice been part of Seagull Books’ annual catalogues. She has a blog where she sometimes thinks aloud the thoughts that cross her mind. Mini’s writing has its roots in her own experiences as well as those of others she has met and interacted with in the course of her life in India and the UAE.


Namratha Varadharajan, from Bangalore, stumbled into the magical rabbit hole of writing when she paused her career in engineering to indulge in motherhood. She writes poems that explore human emotions and relationships, our interconnectedness with nature and tries to chip at the prejudices that plague us, one syllable at a time. She enjoys experimentation with forms and a cup full of imagery but hesitates at rhyme. An ardent and intense blogger, her poems and short stories have been published (/upcoming) in various anthologies and webzines.



Radha Gomaty, a poet-visual artist from Kerala, India, is an alumnus of the prestigious NID, MSU and Viswabharati University. Radha, works in a range of media, including video, painting, and sculpture. Most of her art is layered and conceptual – mythic in nature and classical in approach. Her poetry has been published in two collections. She works on Art & Creative Thinking Outreach Sessions as curator & coordinator of EkaRasa in collaboration with Sparcs Studio. Today Radha heads 'SlingIt’ that upcycle bags from tailoring waste!’


Sonia Dogra, an educator by profession, hails from Shimla and is currently located in Delhi. She also works as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for several publishing houses. She pens for platforms such as Momspresso and Women’s Web. A devoted blogger, Sonia has won several online writing contests and was a finalist in the humour and poetry categories at the ‘Orange Flower Awards-2020’ hosted by Women’s Web. She is also part of several anthologies. She launched her Ebook ‘Unlocked- Historical Tales in Verse’ during the Blogchatter Ebook carnival 2020.



Deepa Gopal is the curator of this exhibition “IGNITE-from within the confines-“She is from Palakkad, Kerala and is currently based in Dubai. She is inclined towards both painting and poetry and that is what inspired her to pave way for this collaborative endeavour. Currently she is a freelance visual artist and an art blogger at Hues n Shades (one of the Top Indian Art Blogs) and her poems have been published in a couple of anthologies. Her artworks suggest a distinctive, dreamlike introspective emotional state or “mindscapes” as she calls them from a strong female presence and perspective. 



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