Original paintings · Shilpi

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Paintings by Shilpi: watercolours and gouache on paper, acrylics on canvas. Browse the collection, see any work on your own wall at true scale, and buy directly from the studio.

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Monsoon over the CourtyardAcrylic on canvas · 36 × 48 in (91 × 122 cm)

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Monsoon over the Courtyard, 2026

The work appears to come from the first evening of the monsoon, when the smell of rain on hot stone fills every room of a house. One reads the red door as both shelter and invitation.

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Ragas at Dusk Mixed media on canvas · 40 × 40 in (102 × 102 cm) ₹1,10,000

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Marigold Morning Oil on canvas · 30 × 30 in (76 × 76 cm) ₹62,000

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Blue Hour, Old Delhi Acrylic and ink on canvas · 24 × 36 in (61 × 91 cm) ₹54,000

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Lotus Pond I Watercolour on paper · 15 × 22 in (38 × 56 cm) Sold

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The Weaver’s Hands Oil on linen · 18 × 24 in (46 × 61 cm) ₹45,000

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Saffron Fields, Pampore Acrylic on canvas · 24 × 48 in (61 × 122 cm) ₹72,000

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Peepal Leaves, Study Gouache on handmade paper · 11 × 14 in (28 × 36 cm) Not for sale

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The artist · New Delhi, India

Shilpi

Shilpi is a painter based in New Delhi. She works mainly in watercolour and gouache on paper, and in acrylic on canvas, and her subjects come from the India she grew up looking at: musicians and dancers, women at their daily work, horses, the gods of the household shrine, and the colours of festival and monsoon.

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