Archive · 7 Aug 2026
Rediscovering Reba Hore's unique artistic legacy in her centenary year
Reba Hore was an artist.
This year is her centenary year, marking 100 years since her birth.
People are rediscovering her artwork.
She made oil paintings and drawings.
Her daughter, Chandana, is also an artist.
Chandana thinks her mother's paintings hold a secret just for her.
She calls it a special language left behind in the artwork.
To understand it, she has to keep painting and "empty the canvas."
She says she finds this language in her hardest moments.
Chandana adds that, like nature, her mother did not reveal everything at once.
Reba Hore's centenary year has brought renewed attention to her unique artistic legacy.
Her artistic legacy includes oil paintings and drawings.
Her daughter Chandana, an artist herself, describes her mother's works as a "secret" left for an artist daughter.
Chandana says she must be in the practice of painting and "empty the canvas" to find the language her mother left her.
Chandana reflects that, like nature, her mother did not reveal everything in her art.
- Who
- Artist Reba Hore and her daughter, artist Chandana
- What
- Rediscovery of Reba Hore's unique artistic legacy of oil paintings and drawings in her centenary year
- When
- Reba Hore's centenary year
- Where
- Not specified in the articles
- Why
- Her works hold a personal "language" left for her artist daughter, and her centenary year has prompted renewed attention to her legacy
- Artist
- Reba Hore
- Occasion
- Centenary year
- Artistic medium
- Oil paintings and drawings
- Daughter
- Chandana, an artist
- Theme
- A "secret language" left in her artworks for her daughter
- Notable quote
- "Like nature, my mother didn't reveal everything"