Breezy and with a relaxed air of confidence, she glides through life with personal fulfilment. For Bhairavi Modi, the young artist of Ahmedabad, the art of painting is what lights up her day. She discovered her creativity while in school at the art classes and especially the summer and winter vacation classes at the School of Architecture, now better known as Centre of Environmental Planning and Technology, in Ahmedabad.

    It honed her creative skills. But as her late father was an architect himself, he desired her to pursue study in architecture. But Bhairavi was keen on arts. So, while studying commerce at college, she joined the well-known CN School of Fine Arts for a five-year diploma in painting in Ahmedabad.

    The turning point came at CN school when her teacher Nabibaksha Mansuri, well known painter of Ahmedabad, inspired her to join the prestigious School of Fine Arts at the M. S. University in Vadodara, Gujarat where....