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| Coloured chalk & charcoal on paper, 6"X8" |
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| Watercolour & Ink on paper, 18"X12" |
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| Fountain Pen (coloured ink) on paper, 6"X8" |
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| Mixed media on coloured paper with computer graphics, 18"X12" |
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| Mixed media on coloured paper, 15" X 9" |
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| Watercolour on paper, 15" X 9" |
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| Watercolour on coloured paper, 18"X12" |
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There is also an element of caricature in my work. Today's world, with its increasing
defiance of Nature, and so-called advances in technology, is offensive to my senses in most parts. Yet, after all has
been said and done, the innate banality of the vain, human ego is a rather hilarious revelation!
I find myself constantly referring back to two
ideas - the comic and the grotesque - which are quite like
each other in certain ways.
In this regard, some of the other master artists that have influenced my
work are Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Benode Behari, Sukumar Ray, K.G.
Subramanyam (Indian artists), Vincent van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec, Egon Schiel, Edward Much,
(Western artists) to name just a few.
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| Watercolour & Ink on coloured paper, 18"X12" |
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| Watercolour on coloured paper, 18"X12" |
In experimenting with
the 'ground colour' of an image I found that much could be achieved simply through the choice of an appropriate, single coloured ground
(paper / canvas etc.) that compliments with and correlates to the colour-mood relationships within the image.
Some of these pictures
(above, below and bottom of the page) were therefore done on coloured
sheets of paper, instead of the more traditional white ground.
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| Pen & Coloured ink on paper, 8" X 6" |
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