Introduction-

New Delhi, 1997 a pound of self hardening clay is transformed into a tiny clay caricature. New York 2007, Coco Cola Company releases a book honoring 60 extra-ordinary people who transformed India at the 60th Anniversary of Indian Independence and following the humble foot steps of these giants Coco Cola called out a 24 year old girl who created “Claytronics” as the emerging 10 who would transform the global artistic landscape.

1994 a colorful strokes of imagination dumped by an art teacher. 1996 a savior from a non – government organization embraces those water marked sheets. 1997 the President of India Mr. Shankar Dayal Sharma bestows the President’s medal for her painting “Freedom Walk” and later Prime Minister I.K Gujral sends her to represent India’s artistic talent to Russia.

2005 - 08 private collectors and art critics like Mrs. Alka Pande hold exhibitions of her paintings. 

2006 steadily advances towards democratizing art by releasing her first animation film “Save wildlife”. The film won the best animation film in Asia in Singapore. She infused her visual arts training, India’s rich cultural diversity and mythology to create “10th Avatar” a 3 minute shot, which has been featured at Santa – Fe Film Festival, South Asian Film Festival in New York, GIRAF.  Her digital work is being used commercially as well by the city of Toronto. Her film “Dundas n Bathrust” won the Toronto Urban Film Festival award and was played across Toronto subways featuring the diversity of the city.

Charuvi was an average student while in school but the vividness of her artistic expression made a giant leap as she stepped into Delhi College of Arts. She became the first student in the history of the institution to win the gold medal for all four years. Her visual arts training, independence in creativity given by her parents and blessings of her audience has always motivated her to create a series of master pieces which in many ways have enabled us to see the difference between practicality, reality, idealism and perhaps something revolutionary.

She continues to strive towards her goal of freedom of expression and democratization of art.

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