SATYABHAMA
MAJHI
A Garden of Everyday Life
A vibrant visual portrait of a public garden where people gather, relax, play, connect, and experience nature together.
Hello,I’m Satyabhama.
I am Satyabhama — an artist from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. My practice moves across painting, installation, sculpture and photography, but painting is where I feel most at home. Much of my work grows out of watching cities expand and landscapes change. Alongside my studio practice, I take on socially rooted projects that bring art into communities — using creativity as a way to listen, share and build something meaningful together.
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Selected Work
Unurbanisation
A visual and philosophical exploration of the tension between urban expansion, landscape, ecology, memory and human connection.
Painted with earth pigments gathered from Odisha's riverbeds and forest terrain, the series records what a landscape remembers as concrete arrives.
Ways of working
- Continuous canvas practice with natural earth pigments and unurbanisation reflections.
- Site-responsive installations built with metal, fabric, clay and gathered material.
- Architectural forms drawn from the ancient temple structures of Odisha.
- Documentary observation of landscape shifts, communities and everyday life.
- Layered surfaces combining clay, charcoal, acrylic and organic binders.
- Urban wall murals, civic monuments and heritage installations.
- Co-creation with indigenous artisans, women collectives and villages.
- Kalpanadham workshops with school children and creative learning programmes.
- Natural pigment research and ecological programmes across rural Odisha.
Art
+ People
+ Memory
+ Nature
+ Community
Community work is not a service line beside the studio — it is the practice itself: indigenous communities, women artists and artisans, school children, rural collectives, public spaces and creative education.
Selected Projects
All ProjectsUnurbanisation & Ecology Solo Exhibition
A solo exhibition of the latest canvases, mixed-media surfaces and clay murals.
View ExhibitionFrom the Studio
Read Journal
Art, Nature & the Language of Landscapes
How landscapes, plants, textures and changing environments shape a painting practice.
Art as a Catalyst for Unurbanisation
How community art projects can challenge the standard definition of urban progress.
Traditional Knowledge and the Living Landscape
Field notes on the natural pigments used in the Niyamgiri hills — chalk stone, charcoal, turmeric, geru soil and brown stone.
"Satyabhama's approach to tribal community engagement is ground-breaking. Her work is not just art, it is documentation of a changing civilization."
"The pigment works in her Unurbanisation series are mesmerizing. Knowing that they are harvested organically from Odisha's soil adds absolute depth."
"We worked with Satyabhama on the Kalpanadham workshops. Her energy and ability to bring children close to natural art is unmatched."