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At first glance, Katayun Saklat is just another kindly, elderly lady with a thatch of grey hair. But she is much more than that. She is one of the most accomplished designers of stained glass in India, with her work included in several public and private collections. She is also a painter, working chiefly with oil and watercolor. At 83, Saklat is trying her hand at a new medium, creating decorative steel panels using glass, paint, even shells. An exhibition of her work was held recently at Debovasha, a gallery­ cum publishing house in Kolkata. Saklat’s paintings are deceptively simple, seemingly dipped in sweet nostalgia. They are gorgeously colored — as one would expect from a stained glass designer — and often feature dreams, flowers, and Parsis, whom she calls the “endangered species”. Katayun Saklat is Parsi herself, with her father from Kashmir and mother from Lahore. They moved to Kolkata in 1928 and Saklat was born 10 years later. Their yellow­ and ­green painted house in Grant Lane in central Kolkata with its jalousied windows and terrace appear in Saklat’s early works.    

What kind of designer is Katayun saklat?

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Fashion designer
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Wall art designer
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Designer of stained glass
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Graphic designer

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