Jyotsna Bhatt

Jyotsna Jyoti Bhatt (6 March 1940 11 July 2020) was an Indian ceramist and potter. She first studied at and then for forty years taught at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Biography Jyotsna Bhatt was born on 6 March 1940 in Mandvi, Kutch State (now Kutch, Gujarat). She studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay (now Mumbai) for a year. Later she joined the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1958 to study sculpture under Sankho Chaudhuri. She became interested in ceramics there. She studied ceramics under Jolyon Hofsted at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City in the United States during the mid 1960s. She returned to India and settled in Baroda (now Vadodara). In 1972, she joined the Department of Sculpture's ceramic studio in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda as a professor. She worked there for 40 years and retired as the Head of the Department of Ceramics in 2002. She was cremated at Vadi Wadi crematorium in Baroda.

Personal life Jyotsna Bhatt met Jyoti Bhatt, a painter, during her college years and they married later. They had a daughter, Jaii.