High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rukmini Varma (b.1940) is an Indian artist based in Bangalore. Born as H.H. Princess Bharani Thirunal Rukmini Bayi to H.H. Princess Uthram Thirunal Lalithamba Bayi and Sri. Kerala Varma Avargal, she is a granddaughter of Maharani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi and belongs to the Travancore Royal Family. Her great great grandfather was Raja Ravi Varma. Her father Kerala Varma is an artist specializing in charcoal and pencil sketches while her son Jay Varma is a colored pencil artist. Into the 1960s Mrs. Varma became interested in dance forms like Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali etc. and has performed on stage. She also established her own dance school in 1965 in Bangalore. She has held several art exhibitions such as the "Conch and the Cauvery" exhibition of 1974 in Delhi which was opened by President V.V. Giri. She has exhibited her paintings in London (1976, opened by Lord Mountbatten), Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (1981), Bonn, Cologne and Neuenahr, Germany (1975) etc.