The 17 acrylic paintings on display at Ganesham, Thycaud, is the fruition of Ragini Krishnan’s dream. The acrylic paintings in mural style take viewers through the story of Shakunthala as narrated in Kalidasa’s Sanskrit drama, Abhijnanashakuntalam.
“I have been working on it for almost 10 years,” says Ragini, a Kannur-native who got hooked to the mural palette after she settled in Thiruvananthapuram in 2008. “I saw an exhibition of mural works done by a group of women that was based on The Ramayana. It was mesmerising. Once I came to know that they were all disciples of Prince Thonnakkal, I got in touch with him and became his disciple,” says the artist.
