Bhopal, Apr 2: Her parents, Rameshchanrda Shah and Jyotsna Milan are well-known name in the field of Hindi literary world but she has chosen different way to express the emotions to outer world. Shampa Shah has created a unique identity in portrait of ceramic and terracotta world of art. Her academic background tells the other half of her life. She is master in science (Botany) and has done specialisation in forest ecology. She accepted that if it were not the Bharat Bhawan then I would have been a forest officer. But then only a handful people would know me. Now she is the well-known name and young face as well, in the field of terracotta and ceramic art world. She refined her creative urge under famous artist PR Darroj during her early thirties. Then she did not look back for a single moment.

She found that the rich Indian cultural diversity has stored many aspects of life through paintings and art forms. The tribal congregation, festivals and other cultural celebrations are the best example to explore the richness of Indian traditional and cultural values. She has had great advantages of works done by several artists on folklore and age old mythological stories. Every story and theme displays the certain massage. She found closer to nature and its beautiful surrounding and the blowing wind gives her sense of sweet smells of Indian soil. She behaves with ease among tribal artists despite her up bringing in Modern City culture. She has also credit of some stories and essays. But she got the special commendation for research work, articles and books written on folklore and tribal fold artists.

She has edited the catalogue 'Anugunj' published by Indira Gandhi National Museum of Mankind. The collection includes picturesque explanation of folklore, believes and mythological sect of different regions of the country. The best known work of Shampa is 'Tribal Craft of Madhya Pradesh' published by famous publishing house 'Mapin'. Her work has been shown at different places including Hermitage Gallery-Mumbai, Jahangir Art Gallery and Triveni Kala Dirgha-Delhi and Ceramic Art Gallery-Bangalore. She has shown the terracotta talent during International Ceramic Festival while displaying the Contemporary Indian Ceramic held in Singapore recently.

She has been awarded the principal artists during a programme organised by Lalit Kala Academy under the banner of 'Colours of Arth'. She rendered the credit for her beautiful artistic design from research, symposium, group shows and most importantly the artists of different backgrounds including tribal artists, potter and metal sculptures. She accepted that I was stunned to look at tribal artist and found that they are far advanced, when it comes to technical aspects. Shampa willingly accepts that I do not find any harm, when someone relates my work with tribal artists.