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Why are my subjects’ women? Because beauty excites me, I like to see transformations, diversity, the layers covering the vulnerable paleness of a female arm, or tender mat luster of flesh; the skin's translucence beneath a film of gauze draping a body. It might as well be the ultramarine of the night sky and the whiteness of the stars. It would be the emerald of riverweeds in a garden on a foggy morning...Tiny drops of dew on the sedge.
My brush does not just move about the surface, it carefully penetrates the space of another dimension, going beyond the frontier - which is insurmountable to anyone else. There truly is space and life behind that fragile margin, as in a mirror. Of these space and life forms I express my daily chronicles, of their everyday life and feasts. And - of women who belong there".
Working with the female form, my paintings are about metamorphoses, where shapes and colors subtly fuse, creating a sensual atmosphere upon the canvas. Within these transformations is an exploration of women's relationships, with each other, with men, and with themselves. The forms push and pull, intimating questions about women and hinting toward the tensions that can exist between beauty, image and society. Tension and metamorphoses are expressed in a dream-like vision of modulating color and shadowed figures. Me at times seem hypnotized by my own muse, yet am able to represent the beauty, power and mystery of the female body and mind. Often based upon mythological themes, my scenes have an exotic and sensual magnetism. Sinuous lines, serpentine forms, sensual color and rhythms combine to create a dynamic energy.
My greatest influences have been my mother, Abanindranath Tegore, Klimt, which is evident in my paintings. I have also been greatly inspired by the urban fantasy stories, haunting music of Rabindranath Tegore.
Most of my paintings begin with an idea, sometimes just the tiniest spark of an idea. It can be triggered by a word heard in passing, a book I might be reading, a song, movie, or the work of another artist. Sometimes a painting begins with nothing more than an interesting pose. I like to keep it in mind all of my ideas. When I have an image in my head, I start to draw. Sometimes what I start out envisioning is not what I end up with. I drawing can take many different paths before it's completed. There are no rules-anything goes. I rarely do preliminary sketches. Occasionally, if the idea I have is too unformed in my mind, I will spend thirty minutes or so sketching out the main character. Usually, I start drawing directly on the canvas. Each aspect of a painting involves a gradual build up of colors. I prefer to paint simple pieces, with a strong, single character. I feel a simple image has more emotion. “The novel tells a story… That is the highest factor common to all novels, and I wish that it was not so, that it could be something different – melody or perception of truth". In this seemingly irrelevant quote what E.M.Forster wished in a novel I aim at in painting. How far I succeed, I can’t say!

The Wings

2007
Oil on canvas
148cmX178cm

Time-1 (Sold)

2007
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
68.6cmX68.6cm

Time-2 (Sold)

2007
Acrylic & Oil on Canvas
68.6cmX68.6cm

Brikhsha Devta (Sold)

2008
Oil on Canvas
160cmX144.8 cm

Lust for life

2005
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
144.8 cm X 228.6 cm