Kalamandalam Bindhulekha

Kalamandalam Bindhulekhais a mural painter and Mohiniyattam, Bharathanatyam dancer from Kerala state, India. She is the first woman mural painter in temple drawing from Kerala state.

Kalamandalam Bindhulekha is a diploma holder in Mohiniyattam and Bharathanatyam and has graduated from Kerala Kalamandalam. She took up mural painting, after having been attracted by the work of her brother-in-law, Sadanandan, a disciple of Mammiyur Krishnan Kutty Nair and got trained in the genre for six years.

Bindhulekha’s work is mainly about blending the traditional mural painting and the contemporary art to give it a modern feel. Some of her mural works sport new styles and unusual colours such as blue.

Her debut work in Tiroor Vadakurumbakaavu temple in Thrissur is considered the first mural painting to be done in a Kerala temple by a woman artist. It took two years to complete the mural painting which consisted of three forms of Devi - Saraswati (in shades of white), Bhadrakali (in shades of dark blue) and Mahalakshmi (in shades of red). The painting was based on the theme "Rajas tamas satva". Her first solo show exhibition of mural paintings was conducted in 2004 at Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Art gallery in Trichur.She has also been part of group exhibitions conducted in Bangalore and Mumbai.

Kalamandalam Bindulekha is married to Malayalam film director Madhav Ramadasan.

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