Tushar Jadhav

Tushar Jadhav is a contemporary abstract painter based in India, working primarily with acrylic on paper. His practice explores the intersection of gesture, geometry, and surface, resulting in compositions that balance raw mark-making with deliberate structural order.

Across his work, Jadhav moves fluidly between monochrome intensity and restrained colour fields. Black and white compositions emphasize physical gesture and texture, where layered strokes, erasures, and pressure marks record the act of painting itself. In contrast, his colour works employ interlocking forms and simplified palettes, using red and yellow as emotive forces that establish rhythm, tension, and spatial depth.

Structure plays a central role in his paintings—grids, fragmented planes, and repeated forms act as quiet frameworks within which spontaneity unfolds. Rather than fixed systems, these structures remain flexible, allowing disruption, imbalance, and human presence to emerge through surface variation and imperfect edges.

Jadhav’s process is intuitive yet controlled. Acrylic paint is used not only for colour, but for its material qualities—opacity, layering, abrasion, and texture—making each work a record of time, movement, and decision. His paintings i...

• Foundation Course in Fine Art, Model School of Art
• Diploma in Drawing and Painting, Raheja School of Art