Madhvi Parekh is an eminent self-taught artist. She was born in 1942 in Sanjaya - a small village in Gujarat 1957, at the age of fifteen, she married Manu Parekh, an Indian artist who studied at the JJ School of Art. They moved first to Ahmedabad, then Mumbai where she did a course in Montessori training. In 1964, they then moved to Kolkata where they lived until 1965 before moving to New Delhi. She started painting in the 1960s.In 1968, Madhvi exhibited her work for the first time at the Birla Academy in Kolkata. One of her paintings was selected to be in the annual show of Lalit Kala Akademi and then purchased by the national institution helping to launch her career. he explored the possibility of depicting her childhood memories through her paintings, where images of fantasy and early days are woven into her entire work, which lend it a surreal, dreamlike quality. Her contemporary style of work gets inspiration from rural India. Beginning with many solos, Madhvi participated in notable group shows such as Play Turkey and Yugoslavia in 1985, Watercolours by Four Women Artists, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal in 1987, and Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1987.