Amit Bhar

Artist Amit Bhar belongs to the age of romanticism, a master in the semi-realistic technique of texturing along with the realistic play of light and shade. The holy ghats of Benaras, historic buildings, Indian deities, sensuous women, and amazing frames in nature captured with earthy colours and a misty atmosphere; these are the moments Amit Bhar narrates through his paintings. Wandering over between realistic and stylised, and occasionally crossing over into the abstract, Amit Bhar's works explore the threshold between waking and dreaming, illusion and reality. Growing up by the banks of the Hooghly river, he took to painting at the tender age of seven and was deeply inspired by the rustic charm of rural Bengal and of his birthplace Hooghly-Chinsurah. With his semi-realistic rendering, it almost seems like time is frozen in the scene he chooses to capture. A staunch believer of the process; the artist likes to gradually lose himself into the bigger picture and enjoys using traditional mediums like oil, watercolour and ink. He continually experiments with various rendering techniques which strongly reflect in his oeuvre.