Reba Hore

Reba Hore (1926–2008) was an Indian artist and activist. She has worked in various mediums ranging from water colors, mixed media, oil paints, pastels to terracotta. Her artworks were spontaneous, deeply personal and rooted in her daily life experiences. She was the wife of Somnath Hore, an accomplished sculptor and print maker himself.

Life Reba had completed her graduation in economics and became a member of the Communist Party in 1948. Later, she joined the Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata. After completing her studies, she started teaching art at St. John's Diocesan School from 1951. It was three years later, when she married Somnath Hore in 1954. Hore died in 2008.

Career Hore was mostly under the shadow of her husband. However, the incredible number of artworks created in a style of her own make her stand out.

Style and influences Reba Hore's works describe her emotional responses to the stimuli of her day-to-day life experiences. These stimuli ranged from as simple as the animals in her courtyard, the everyday lives of the people and the folk zest of the Shantiniketan to an emotional portrayal of momentous human tragedies like the Bengal famine, which was contemporary to her times. 2016 - The Overwhelming Imagination : The Junction of Interactivity, Art Konsult, New Delhi 2011 - Art of the Land & Land in Art, Galerie 88, Kolkata