Humility – My Dhoraji

Artist: Monika Thesiya Panelia
Title: My Dhoraji
Medium: mix media with hand made paper
Size: 30 x 22 inch
Exhibition: Workhardt

Best Realistic Painting Award from Gujarat Kala
Pratishtha 2015 and selected by Bombay Art
Society 2026

Humility – My Dhoraji

Handmade paper carries the memory of its own making —
pressed, layered, enduring. Panelia builds a landscape from the
inside out: her hometown rendered in pigment and persistence,
structures that have weathered time and remained themselves.
Awarded by the Gujarat Kala Pratishthan and recognised by the
Bombay Art Society 2026, this work speaks the language of quiet
continuity.
Humility is not smallness. It is the knowledge of what you are
made of — and the choice to keep standing