featured the landscapes of her native place, village life and rural people, mixed with the anxieties and forebodings of her own mind. She participated in several exhibitions in Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kochi and Chennai, including a One-Man Show held in Chennai in 1968 and at the National Exhibition, held in New Delhi in 1969. Eighty-six of her paintings Padmini have been displayed at the Durbar Hall Gallery of Kerala Lalithakala Akademi in Kochi and a few drawings are in the archives of the Akademi in Thrissur. Her paintings viz. Portrait and Burial Ground, are on display at the National Art Gallery, Chennai, and a few others are at Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad; besides private collections in India and abroad. The last of her works, Girl who flies the Kite, was on display at the British Council, Chennai, organized by the Creative Art Forum. Awards and honours Padmini won her first honour in the form of a certificate of commendation from the Madras State Lalithakala Akademi for her painting Growth in 1963. The Association of Young Painters and Sculptors (AYPS) awarded her their annual award in 1965 for the painting, Women. She received two more awards from the Madras State Lalit Kala Akademi in 1967, her paintings Dreamland and Dawn, earning her the awards. Malayalanaadu weekly published a festschrift on Padmini, on the occasion of the first anniversary of her death. Kerala Lalithakala Akademi published a book on her, titled T. K. Padmini, a Monograph, in 2005, which featured a foreword by Kanayi Kunhiraman, and reminiscences by T. K. Divakaran, her maternal uncle and mentor, K. Damodaran, her husband and Edasseri Govindan Nair, one of the guiding figures in the artist's life, besides the colour reproduction of 28 Paintings and 8 drawings. In 2012, The Information and Public Relations Department of the Government of Kerala produced a 30-minute documentary on the life of Padmini under the title, Pattam Parathunna Penkutty. The film, directed by Walter D'Cruz received three awards viz. Kerala State Television Award for the best documentary in 2012, International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) special jury award in 2013 and best documentary award at the Female Film Festival in 2013. Kerala Lalithakala Akademi have also instituted an annual award in her name, T. K. Padmini Puraskaram. In popular media T. K. Padmini Memorial Trust, an eponymous organization, has undertaken to produce a biopic, Padmini, based