2016, 13.58

Madhura studied philosophy at Birmingham Uni, ran a lighting company with her boyfriend, working with bands like Status Quo, was an actress in repertory theatre and in the West End and lived in an ashram in India for several years where she met Indira Gandhi.

She also lived on a boat off the north west coast of America, where she discovered yet another career as a designer, decorating houses and making beautiful designs for tapestries – as well as creating extraordinarily intricate and precise pieces of embroidery. As a dancer she was one of those annoying people who can do the splits with no effort…

But this beautiful and agile body slowly changed as she got older. She developed rheumatoid arthritis, which slowly, bit by painful bit, stole her capacity to walk, to stand, to use her hands. But instead of becoming bitter and complaining she remains her witty, humourous self – making wry fun of her own situation and using what movement remains in her swollen and twisted hands to paint in the manner of the old Chinese Daoist painters – who used the minimum effort to create exquisitely subtle and delicate pieces of art.