Shobha Broota (b.1943) has experimented extensively with several styles and subjects - including portraits, figurative, abstract and relief work. Trained as a classical vocalist before studying fine arts, she brings her training in music to use in her visual language. Broota's themes have a meditative quality and a sense of simplicity, which is also reflected in her creative process. She uses yarn, thread, and nets sometimes, which have the same rhythmic quality to them as her oil and acrylic abstract works.
Shobha completed her Diploma in Fine Arts from the College of Art, New Delhi (1964) and her Sangeet Visharad at New Delhi in (1962). She has received the All India Fine Arts and Craft Society (AIFACS) award (1982), a scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India (1982-84) and the "Alva's Varna Virasat" National Award, a "Lifetimes Achievement Award" from Alva's Education Foundation, Karnataka (2018) to name a few. Her works are in numerous collections, such as the National Gallery in India and Malaysia, as well as private collections of Chester Herwitz and many others in India and abroad.