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A peek into "a traveller's palette"

Madhur Tankha

Animesh Roy's exhibition is now on

VIVID: A painting by Animesh Roy

NEW DELHI: He doesn't believe in creating artistic impressions sitting in a studio. Instead, artist Animesh Roy travels to various interesting places across the country to derive inspiration from nature and topography.

At present Animesh's exhibition -- appropriately titled "A Traveller's Palette" -- done in oil and acrylic on canvas as well as pen and ink on paper is on at Open Palm Court Gallery here.

Revealing that he had been travelling to the Himalayan belt for the past ten years to create a body of works for the ongoing exhibition, Animesh says: "I have travelled extensively across Leh, Ladakh, Kullu, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, Bhutan and Nepal to do on-the-spot sketches and paintings."

The artist has also depicted Indian farmlands by showcasing geometrical designs in agricultural land that can be of any northern State of the country.

"I have also tried to show the different topography of our country," adds Animesh, whose last exhibition was way back in 1996 in Mumbai.

After passing out from the Delhi College of Art (1986-1990) as a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Animesh's pieces of art in drawings and paintings (water colour, acrylic, mix media and pen and ink) were showcased at a solo exhibition at Sophia Duchesne Art Gallery in Mumbai in 1996.

His pen-and-ink drawings of Ladakh were displayed at an exhibition titled "Travels with a Donkey" in New Delhi. At Triveni Gallery his paintings and drawings were displayed in 1994. He has also participated in various group shows in the Capital's All-India Fine Arts and Culture Society, M.E.C. Art Gallery and Vadehra Art Gallery.

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