Jayashree Chakravarty, born 1956, in Tripura and spent her childhood in Agartala, where she was first introduced to art. Jayashree Chakravarty’s subject of interest was always nature which came from experience in living in a small town. Exposed to the cosmopolitanism of her immediate environment, surrounded by students and scholars from all over the world, Chakravarty was able to trace several similarities between Agartala and Santiniketan in terms of the ways in which small towns at the time were morphing into more urban spaces. During the early 1980s, Jayashree moved to Vadodara, Gujarat and joined M.S. University for a PG Diploma in Painting. This change brought influences

Prabhu Harsoor (1962) has been reflecting on forms that transpire between the abstract and the figurative and acquire a visual language that is particularly his own. He has several visualisations from his memories that have given his works a special treatment in the realm of the distorted from that of the concrete. Some of his abstractions are similar to a linguistic script and are deliberately engaging with the idea of the formation of a language. Very evocative of the famous Indian modernist Artist Vasudeo S. Gaitonde's works, Harsoor explores alphabets as he visualises them and, in the process, engages with the idea of the artistic practice of script-making and the lingering

Cross hatching is a complex technique - now fairly rare – through which the artist shades with intersecting sets of parallel lines, moving carefully from light to dark, to give the image depth and shadow. Ashok Bhowmick - a senior, well recognised artist from India - discovered his talent as an artist at an early age, but chose the cross hatch as his preferred technique in 1974. Ashok Bhowmick’s inherited his proclivity for art from his mother, who was also his first teacher. Apart from being an exceptional painter, he is also an experimental sculptor, a philosopher and writer. Sixty years of experience, dedication and love of simplicity layer his

Born in 1939 in Gujarat, Manu Parekh completed a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, in 1962. Parekh’s early work explored the relationships between man and nature, as according to him, this was an energetic link that had to be celebrated. The artist also points out that, since then, contradictions have formed the basis of his artistic practice, no matter the subject or genre of his works. Banaras as a city came to play an integral role in Parekh’s work after his first visit there following his father’s death. This holy city of hope, of faith, of tourists offered him a vast number of contradictions in one location. Parekh also

Madhvi Parekh is one of India’s most distinguished artists, having over five decades of art experience. Madhvi’s artworks depicts her childhood memories and fantasies. Her paintings are inspired by rural India, or Indian mythology but retains her own contemporary twist. Viewers witness several styles ranging from fauvism to divisionism to other similar neo-impressionism in her work. She even alludes to the religious Hindu mythological narratives while also attending to the folk-lores and folk-styles of art-making in India. While her artwork constantly explores the beauty of forms in nature, her art also extends itself to the idea of distorting them to see where that leads