Reemesha Oodit: Instinct and Line

Reemesha Oodit is an artist skilled in multiple techniques, blending painting, resin, and mandalas to create vibrant works where mastery and intuition engage with nature. Her studio resembles less of a workspace and more of a suspended zone: a table covered in pigments, jars of brushes sorted by density, and loose sheets where she jots down visual thoughts rather than ideas.

Here, Reemesha spends most of her time, cradled by the hymn of nature: the whispers of the wind, the rustling of leaves, and the soft song of a bird. She paints with assured, measured, and precise movements. For the past 15 years, she has been developing a body of work in which nature serves as backdrop, material, and vocabulary. She never describes it as a theme but rather as a connection.

In her work, Reemesha navigates through various realms: realism, abstraction, mixed media, resin, and textured art. This plurality has become her method: to explore, shift, experiment, and return.

One day, while preparing for an exhibition, she layered acrylic over an improvised textile collage. She loved the accident and turned it into a series. Such spontaneous diversions mark her journey. She is cautious of overly rigid systems, assured discourses, and aligned aesthetics. She prefers to learn rather than to prove.

This technical freedom hasn’t hindered her from exhibiting: first locally, then in international virtual galleries, an opportunity she embraced with curiosity and method. One of her pieces won a national first prize, a significant recognition. Yet, honors have never been her driving force. What guides her is the visceral need to create, to shape what is born within her.

In the mandalas she creates freehand, there’s something deeply personal. The gesture is slow, repetitive, almost ceremonial. She doesn’t trace a pattern; she establishes a rhythm. The motifs unfold on canvases, wood, paper, and sometimes on unexpected materials chosen for their texture, durability, and how they absorb color.

In her figurative works, it’s not the technicality that impresses – though it is real – but how she captures the moment: the shadow gliding over a face, a breath surfacing, a tension in the gaze.

Her abstract canvases operate differently: they provoke, sometimes bewilder. They require a moment of pause, exploring what color can evoke.

Reemesha's journey includes a detour through textiles and management. Her studies in Fashion Technology and later an MBA in business administration set her on a hybrid path, seemingly disconnected from artistic motivation. Yet, her experience in fashion taught her about volume construction, attention to detail, and the importance of gesture. Management provided her with the opposite: distance, organization, and foresight. This combination is her toolkit today. She knows exactly how much time a series requires, how to structure a project, and how to balance intuition with method.

In a field where many improvise, she moves steadily, almost strategically. Never in haste.

Reemesha Oodit doesn’t dramatize her journey. She advances at her pace, away from excess, away from pressures. Her ascent isn’t spectacular, but it is consistent: a slow, stable, almost underground line. Her ambition isn’t absent, but it is quiet, manifesting in the rigor of her work, her technical progression, and her refusal of easy compromises.

In a world saturated with images, her work imposes a different rhythm: slower, more attentive, more grounded. She paints to understand, sometimes to breathe, rarely to convince. Reemesha Oodit doesn’t seek the spotlight. She seeks what sustains her.

Perhaps that’s why her work resonates within the Mauritian art scene.