Riddhi Varma.
since first visit
with the house
On the work.
I am not sure I have ever finished a painting. I have agreed, at a certain point, to stop bothering them.
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Riddhi Varma paints slowly, and then slower. Her paintings contain between four and six earlier paintings inside them. You cannot see these earlier paintings, but she can, and on some days she mourns them.
The paintings Varma makes are small. She works at a reading-height easel and paints almost exclusively in the late afternoon. The work is made from memory and doubt, which she describes as “the only two materials I trust — the rest is just colour”.
I am not sure I have ever finished a painting. I have agreed, at a certain point, to stop bothering them.
Her recent paintings have taken as their starting point the small objects that survive a house move — a cracked tile, a left-behind chair, a cabinet door that has been repainted so many times it no longer closes. The work is autobiographical but not self-portraiture. What survives the move, she has said, is what the house chooses to keep.
Varma has been with the house since 2024. Three of her works — Field I, Field II, and Small window — are available through the house in the current exhibition. Her books, typically, are not.
Shows with the house.
Commission a work, or write to them.
Commissions go through the house. First conversations are with us — we'll pass your note along only if the artist is open to new work that month.
A reply, either way, within the week.
- Artists are paid fully before any work begins.
- We do not discount — but we do set aside a piece while you consider it.
- Lead time is honest: eight to sixteen weeks.