Following My Paint Brush

Following My Paint Brush is the story of Dulari Devi, a domestic
helper who went on to become an artist in the Mithila style of folk
painting from Bihar, eastern India. Dulari is from a community of
fisherfolk, whose occupation is river-fishing. Used to a life of hard
and relentless labour, she discovered painting while working in
an artist’s house.
She learned by doing, and very soon came to adapt artistic rules
and conventions to her own expressive needs. Following My Paint
Brush narrates Dulari’s momentous journey from a worker who
knew no rest to an artist willing to go where her imagination
leads her. In this - Dulari’s first book - Gita Wolf has recorded the
story that was relayed to her orally, while Dulari has told the
visual story through her art.