Niradhara Lynne Marie is an accomplished outsider artist with a distinctive, innovative visual voice. She was an invitational artist at Kashya Hildebrand Gallery in Chelsea, New York City for the month of June 2006 in a group exhibit to raise consciousness of violence against women and raise funds and awareness for V-Day. An advocate of art in woman's prisons, her work in prison ministry grew over 5 years, producing and facilitating art programs to revive the creative spirit. She is currently seeking grants and funding to continue this work in the boroughs of New York City.

Her work continues a creative process invoking atonement (covering and mending). It is the transcendent language of a woman's work through the power of her hands. The work itself is prayer... as spoken word manifests its truth through mantra or affirmation, so it is with any sound, visual witness, movement, or task drawn out of the body.

Niradhara Marie brings insight to empowering the humble stitch through creating powerful images of women in Mixed Media with use of encaustics, organic prints, textile inks, ink-jet prints, beeswax, hand stitchery in dyed cotton thread & free-motion stitchery on her assemblages of over-dyed vintage linens. This Fine art in the vernacular form of quilt, is transcendent Stitchery for mending the fragmented human condition.

The latest series of work is called 'Sutras', in Sanskrit, this literally means 'thread'. The process of creating this work is a gateway between gravity and grace, Tattooing cloth with thread, marking rites of passage both ceremonial and mundane, as sacred time.

Her series 'Temporal Coverings' is a shelter for the human soul. They are conceptually formed as quilts using the artist's assemblages of vintage linens which she overdyes, paints, marks and variously hand prints with inks, beeswax, dyes and encaustics and details the work covering it in an elaborate tattooing of stitchery. The new work is about being uncovered, unsheltered, unprotected, and unloved. The act of making this work creates a prayer for re-covering. Each piece deals with differing social issues of disenfranchised people, and the artist's increasing identification as one of these persons. The work is about creating soul shelters, like a quilt, a tallis, or a prayercloset.

Niradhara began her work in Southwestern PA in the late 1970's and experimenting with cathartic works throughout the 1980s. She made a move in 1991 and established her artistic career on Nantucket Island for twelve years, where her daughter and son-in-law now raise a family.

Her newest work is about the losses suffered in human relationships when dynamics are broken due to illness or other traumatic change outside of a person's control. It is inspired by Niradhara's personal experience with acute Lyme's Disease with complications. The work is a mending.

Reverend Niradhara is a practicing Agnihotrin and Interfaith Minister ordained in June, 2008. For three years she was a resident staff member at the Yoga Society of New York’s upstate retreat community, Ashram. She received her Sanskrit name there which means “independent” Niradhara (pronounced Nirad- hara). Five years after receiving this name she lives most months of the year on the holy Narmada river in India, where she is working on forming an NGO for supporting peace thru prayers and practical purposes. her name, Niradhara, with slightly different accents on the vowels is one of the 1000 names of this river goddess and means a flowing stream of water.