Vasudha Thozhur was born on October 14, 1956 in Mysore city. She has trained in Madras (now Chennai) and in England. She completed her Diploma in Painting from the College of Arts and Crafts, Madras in 1979 after which she did her post Diploma in Painting at the Croydon School of Art and Design in the United Kingdom. She presently lives and works in Madras.

Vasudha has not restricted herself to a single medium. She works with water colours as well as oils and the features of one media flow into the other to remarkable effect. Her use of colour is energizing and her paintings, non-judgmental. The bold and forceful gestures never fail to evoke a response from the viewer. Vasudha’s paintings reflect a strong element of drawing. One particularly notices the use of lines which is in keeping with her belief of their importance.

Interestingly, her work is non-committal in the sense that it defies all attempts at leading the viewer to a single interpretation. The use of a number of metaphors within a painting encourages each one to interpret her work in their own way depending on their past experiences and the feelings evoked by her creations. The various images take birth in Vasudha’s imagination and are not representations of the phenomenal world as it were. She has a number of exhibitions to her credit including a 2-person show at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.