Sujan Biswas

Born: 1973
Shaktifarm, Nainital- India

Artist Sujan Biswas has made the world of Nature the leitmotif of his art creations. In his works one can almost breathe the freshness of trees, their close relationship with the people who inhabit his canvas, not as individuals but as a part of the arboreal world around them. In fact, the trees in his works loose much of their individual identity and become embodied as the limbs and body parts of the human world. In consequence, the interdependence between man and nature is writ in explicit terms in all of Sujan Biswas' works. Through the masterly strokes of his brush, the fine lines of pen and ink details and a colour palette that weaves meaning through various tints and shades, this skilful artist has driven home the urgent message that the wanton destruction of trees and their lack of upkeep is the way to environmental degradation, and the celebration of creativity can be verbalized through such poignant messages on canvas.

This succinct bonding between man and trees has found voice in the art works through a unique methodology of transformation. Biswas seems to start out with making a tree on the canvas but somewhere down the line, the creative palette manifests itself into a huma...

Graduate and Diploma in Arts,New Delhi-INDIA

SOLO EXHIBITION:

2012: "Reversed Identity" an exhibition of paintings and drawings at Lalit Kala Academy (LKA), New Delhi.

2011: "Trees Mankind" an exhibition of paintings and drawings at India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi.

2010: "Tree of Life" an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture Organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi- India.