Ma Deva Padma lives in Australia and has been a professional artist since 1968. She was trained at the New England School of Art and the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. Her work was presented by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne in 2002, and she has had many other successful exhibitions in Australia and around the world. She is represented in Australia by the well-known Kazari Gallery in Melbourne. Padma is also the illustrator of the bestselling Osho Zen Tarot.