Now on view: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil — the Golu monkey masks at Fremont Main Library through November · See the display
Indian art · ritual · design · Fremont, CA
Ritual, proportion and paint — made slowly, measured carefully.
Shilpa Shastra iconometry, Tanjore and watercolour, community culture, and field notes from an immigrant studio that is currently one corner desk and three cups of water.
Shop
Sticker sets
Golu motifs and monkey masks, hand-drawn and packed in Fremont. US shipping included.
Commission
A piece for your occasion
Paintings, calligraphy in Siddham, Kannada or Tamil, and cultural projects: Golu displays, masks, workshops and events. You bring the occasion, I’ll bring the grid.
Practice
Two verbs, three doors. Some days I make the thing; some days I gather the whole street around it.
Make
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Sacred Art
Traditional Shilpa Shastra iconometry and Tanjore paintings, drawn to the proportions the shastras actually measure. Shlokam and namam calligraphy in Siddham, Kannada and Tamil.
Make
02
Visual Art
Food, culture and lifestyle paintings in watercolour and gouache, postcard to A2, with occasional oil pastel and acrylic adventures. Prints, illustrations and originals.
Collaborate
03
Curate
Conceptual art for dance and theatre, rooted in ritual, the Shastras and an architect’s eye for space. I design the world a production lives in, from mask proportions to set geometry, then help build it on schedule, because a stage is just a site plan with lights.
- Concept art and visual worlds for dance drama
- Masks, props and sets drawn to Shilpa Shastra proportion
- Theatre production at Tamil Academy and Sanhiti
- Staged installations: library Golu, Celebrate India
Also: design and art classes for kids and young adults. See the classes →
From the journal
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HPRM Golu 2026 Kickoff: Meet the Monkeys!
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Siddham: Shri on a Doily, Radha in a Lake: Closing Akshara, Opening a Practice
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Monkey Mask Diaries – Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Done
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Monkey Mask Diaries, Part 5: The Template (Or, How I Cut 25 Pages Down to Six)
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Siddham: The Script That Took the Long Way Home
The Letter · twice a month
Rituals, process, and what went wrong on the coffee table.
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About the studio
I’m Radha — trained as an architect in Bangalore, at the Bauhaus Kolleg, and as an urban planner in California. Studio RaMuHa is where those grids meet the older ones: the talam proportions of Shilpa Shastra, the gold of Tanjore, the steps of a Golu.
I also teach colour theory, form, drawing and lettering to kids and young adults, through craft and project-based learning. It turns out a Golu step and a lesson plan need the same thing: everything in its place, and one small chaos agent. About the classes →
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