Dr Vimmie Manoj is a self-taught artist from India. She has acquired her basic schooling and graduation in science stream from Pune before she shifted to Madhya Pradesh after her marriage. She continued with her studies by doing a Masters in Arts and a Ph.D degree in English Literature. She further did an MBA in HR and worked as a Professor in Communicative English for over a decade.
She has a deep interest in research with her area of specialization being Gender –Studies. Many of her research papers are published in books and journals.
Dr Vimmie Manoj is a freelance artist with a global exposure. She has passionately pursued art & experimentally explored driftwood sculpture and paintings. Her paintings in oil and acrylic are an ode to life and are fused with symbols that reflect the cacophonous and the content Human emotions. She creates a sort of visual poetry through her paintings. Some of her paintings are purely figurative and some purely abstract, she also experiments in the semi abstract i.e. fusion of figurative and abstract. The mystical effect created with choice of colours, forms and textures maintains the sense of proportion and harmony. The abrupt use of knife and brush imparts the uncertain predicaments. The portraits and landscapes are not reflections of some particular person or place but convey her individual philosophical assessment. The reflection of her acclaimed academic research in regional literature and gender studies can be seen in her arts. Her series titled ‘Liberation’ is an ode to womanhood, the emotional bonding of relationships and the wriggle to liberate the self from the outdated dogmas. The ‘Illusions’ series replicate the constant of the time zone- day and night as an illusion, life as an illusion and human existence with joys and sorrows as a mythical state of mind. Thus Painting for her is a connecting ladder to reach the SELF- the conscious with the subconscious. It thus is a mode of communicating the unsaid.