Dipayan Ghosh

My art is theme based and looks at expressing a distinct subject in the midst of abstract techniques. I am deeply enthused with the deep emotions and beliefs of people, societal dilemmas, or environmental concerns and strive to express them through bold, earthen and somewhat fiery colours. One would find a lot of Indian Reds, Indian Yellows, Pyrrole Orange and shades of Terracotta, Ochre or Sienna in my artwork. As themes, one would, quite frequently, find me adopting a theme of Indian heartland rituals and practices, or contemporary societal dilemmas, or the deep introspective human mind. Environmental concerns, and issues that intrigue people like nature, industrial pollution and racial discrimination also feature incredibly in my works. I am deeply inspired by cubism as well as expressionism art movements and, somewhat naturally, look at blending the two in my conceptualization of themes. While making my artwork, I am deeply fascinated in ‘roughing’ up my primed stretched canvas with portland cement, sand grains, resin glue, ceramic stucco or black lava. Then use several layers of ‘hatching-strokes’ with a broad brush of bold colors to lay the medium notes adopting a cubist-expressionism style; before toping the canvas with the alternative media like fibre, shattered glass, resin blocks, textiles, threads, cardboard pieces, etc. The finished work would most-certainly be full of bravado and boldness to light up a positive impact on the soul.