Lalit Patil

As an artist I choose to be a visual artist. My earlier works mark my rigorous engagement with process of making drawings, paintings, installations and fine relief sculptures.
I have worked in mixed media throughout my life but one thing that keeps me awake is doing night landscapes. I start my night landscape at around sunset with the night growing fast and darkness coming; night is often referred to as black or dark but as an Artist I tend to see a grayscale of colorful colors like mixed Prussian blue with a tinge of sap green, cobalt blue, magenta, yellow making a variety of colors for the darkness, for the light to come out. This play in oil color with its thick application on canvas makes it bold and strokes make it abstract. We know how Mumbai is crowded with its buildings and slums, the complexity and simplicity seen at the same time is what I paint and like. Slums have this unexpected structure wherein they seem to be like, this mountain of houses, light passes through forming shapes with darkness just beside it and I see huge buildings in background; this is what I exactly like to paint because a crowd of forms is present and I have a vision for seeing color at night with a different perspective making my own kind of color...

Born in 1972, L. R. Patil graduated from Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai India in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He received the K.K. Hebber Foundation Scholarship in 1994.In 1994 he also received the Camlin First Prize for the Final Year Annual show at Sir J. J. School of Art Mumbai. In 2000 he was awarded the Bombay Art Society Prize by M/S Hindustan Pencil Ltd.. In 2009 he received a Postgraduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha, Mumbai.

His prominent solo shows have been in 2005, 2013 & 2022 at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. In 2008 He showed solo at the Fine Arts Faculty, Baroda. He has also participated in several group shows and art camps.Upcoming solo shows coming in Triveni Kala Sangam New Delhi India 3rd to 10th Nov 2025, Jehangir Art gallery Mumbai 17th to 23 March 2026, Nehru centre 24th to 30 Nov 2026.