Natasha Kumar British, b. 1976

Born Manchester 1976.

Art and India are in Kumar’s genes. On her mother’s English side she comes from a line of established artists and fine figurative painters: her father’s Indian heritage she traces back to Kashmir and Afghanistan via stories of partition and lost family gold.

She has made her own name as an artist from the age of 17, when, earning a place by right in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she found her etchings hanging on the same wall as paintings by her grandfather and uncle.

Kumar began with a local art foundation course and a distinction in printmaking.  A first class degree in printmaking at Manchester followed, where her love of multiples and repetition flourished.

"Pattern is in my DNA,  I grew up surrounded by wallpaper and fabrics by my great uncle, George Todd, a rather colourful character and terrific designer. I never got to meet him but he was a inspiration."

She studied printmaking and anatomy in the Venice Accademia and completed her MA in printmaking in Camberwell in London in 2000, winning the London Printmaking Prize the same year. She established her own print workshop in Camberwell and her reputation grew over the next 20 years through the support of clients, successful exhibitions, events and art fairs worldwide.

She has had a 5 month solo show in Southbank, annual exhibitions at the Royal Geographical Society, and in 2015 gave a talk about her work;  Rasa: Essence of India –  in the famous Ondaatje Theatre.