Drawing Bengaluru, Blr Hubba 2026
About the Artist
Preetha Mahendran is an artist/ illustrator/ art educator currently based in Bangalore. She loves to tell stories through her art. Her inspirations include Nature, People and Nostalgia. She’s an avid painter and loves to paint outdoors. She works both in traditional media and digitally. Poetry and music move her soul and inspire her to create.
Preetha is a graduate of the Academy of Art, San Francisco which was where she began regularly sketching, and fell in love with the artform. When she returned to India, she began teaching Illustration at Stella Maris College, Chennai, her Alma Mater. After moving to Bangalore, she founded a small sketchclub within her community. This club meets every weekend, and she says it’s her best part of the week! She also teaches kids traditional drawing and painting.
The Tea Shop on ITPL Main Road
About the Artwork
- Medium: Gouache on paper
- Artwork Size: 5x 7 inches
This painting features a corner of ITPL Main Road, in Whitefield Bangalore. This is a very busy intersection and amidst all the honking and tooting of horns you can spot this very busy tea joint nestled under a large eucalyptus tree. Beside the tea shop, was a cart with a person churning out sugarcane juice.
Spots like these dot every busy street in Bangalore. But something about the gestural stretch of this tree caught my eye, it seemed to say “Look at me!” as it sheltered this menagerie of people and vehicles. From it hung wires and tyres, it seemed worn out and tired but still doing its job. It was serving as an umbrella that held this little vignette together.
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