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Meera Iyer

Painter · Acrylic & oil on canvas · Chennai

Meera Iyer

The landscapes of South India in thick, directional brushwork — backwaters, the Ghats in the monsoon, lotus ponds and marigold fields — with a quieter series of colour-field abstracts.

  • 140+canvases in private collections, 5 countries
  • 2solo shows, and 11 group shows
  • 60+commissions for homes, offices and a hotel
  • 1,100students taught in weekend workshops
The painting Backwaters, Evening, framed in walnut and hung above an oak sideboard
Backwaters, Evening — at home in a collector's living roomAcrylic on canvas · 30 × 40 in · 2024

Paintings

Selected works, 2023–2025

Tap any painting to see it large. Available works can be reserved by email; sold works can be commissioned in a similar mood.

Commissions

Paintings made for a room

More than sixty so far — living rooms, office lobbies, and one whole hotel.

Heritage boutique hotel · Puducherry · 40 rooms

Twenty-four originals in five months

Brief

A 40-room heritage hotel wanted a painting of the coast and its light in the lobby and every room.

Paint

A series of 24 original canvases, from small bedside pieces to the lobby's largest work.

Deliver

All 24 works finished, delivered and hung within 5 months of the first meeting.

Painting the South as it feels in the monsoon — wet, green and moving.

Meera has painted full time since 2017, after two years assisting a senior Chennai painter on murals and a 400-work archive. Her landscapes are built up in thick, directional strokes; her abstracts come from the same colours pared back to fields and a single line. Alongside the studio she runs a limited-edition giclée print line — 900 prints sold — and teaches weekend workshops and an online course, "Painting the Monsoon", with 2,400 enrolments.

  • Based inChennai, Tamil Nadu
  • MediumsAcrylic, oil, gold leaf
  • Studio since2017
  • Collectors inIndia, UK, Singapore, UAE, US
  • EducationBFA Painting, Govt. College of Fine Arts, Chennai

Mediums & materials

What she paints with

  • Acrylic on canvas
  • Oil on canvas
  • Palette knife & impasto
  • Gold leaf
  • Watercolour studies
  • Giclée printing
  • Procreate sketches

Exhibitions

Shows and recognition

  • Solo — "Monsoon Notebooks", Neelam Gallery, Chennai2024 · 22 works, 17 sold
  • Art fair — independent artists' section, a national art fair, New Delhi2024
  • Group — "South by Southwest Coast", Kochi and Mumbai2023
  • Featured artist — a national interiors magazine2023
  • Group — annual state art exhibition, Chennai (selected)2022 · 2023
  • Artist residency — a Western Ghats residency programme2022 · 4 weeks
  • Solo — "Water and Light", an arts centre in Bengaluru2021

Practice

Studio, teaching and training

  1. Jun 2017 — Now

    Independent Painter

    Meera Iyer Studio, Chennai

    140+ originals sold to collectors in 5 countries; 60+ commissions; 26,000 followers for her process videos, who now bring in 40% of commissions.

  2. Jan 2019 — Now

    Painting Instructor

    Weekend workshops · online course

    1,100 students in 90+ workshops; an 8-module online course with 2,400 enrolments, rated 4.8 / 5.

  3. Jul 2015 — May 2017

    Studio Assistant

    A senior painter's studio, Chennai

    Canvas preparation and assistance on 3 public murals; catalogued a 400-work archive.

  4. 2011 — 2015

    BFA, Painting

    Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai

Commissions & enquiries

A painting for your wall?

meera.iyer.art@email.com

  • +91 94440 27518
  • Chennai, Tamil Nadu
  • meeraiyer.art
  • @meera.paints

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