Piyali Ghosh

Having studied in Shantiniketan and Baroda, graduating with a master’s degree in Fine Arts, Indian artist Piyali Ghosh’s drawings is a meditation on the nature of fables and folklore often shown through the lens of autobiography. The narrative structure of the works takes the viewers through a plethora of tales where animals morph into a range of characters. The scenes that are portrayed take small town stories and blow them up to large scale fantasies.

Ghosh’s canvases are filled with desire: it seems to be the engine for the narratives that the artist employs. In these tableaux animals and human cavort in fantastical landscapes, filled with iridescent yellows, blues and greens. The art historical references which inform Ghosh’s work are plentiful. Mughal and Rajasthani miniature influences are apparent in the manner in which she builds up her landscapes, especially in the detailed brush work that hints at water, diaphanous material, trees and foliage. Her extensive use of tempera roots Ghosh’s work firmly in an indigenous locale.

By unveiling a multitude of fabulous fables, Piyali Ghosh has presented the art scene with a new and fresh voice whose distinctive vocabulary is likely to become a force to be reckoned with among India’s emerging painting scene.

Read her interview with Art Concerns.

[Info via Chatterjee & Lal]

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