Ganesh Bhat

Anyone watched Ganesh Bhat’s collection might have noticed this: each of his titles is unique. He carefully picks different sets of colors and techniques and works effectively to make his artwork inconsistent and de-linked from others. Unless aimed for, he creates no sequence adding great value of originality to each painting and in the process making it stand out from his own portfolio. He makes no secret about his peculiar distaste for geometry, symmetry and predictability. As a believer in spontaneity, he thinks this insanity a blessing and an opportunity to explore his own subconsciousness - a world with myriad imaging possibilities.
Born in an agrarian family on the mid-western coast of India 100 miles south from the tourist state of Goa on 1st July 1978, GB has seen nooks and corner of the Western Ghats, one of the oldest and precious ecosystems in the world. Vast paddy fields submerged in green, hills capped with meadows and rare visits of the pangolins, porcupines, leopards and Indian gray hornbills to his neighborhood, ferociousness of the subtropical monsoon rains and forest skies blanketed with flame of the forest in summer and glory of the waterfalls and eternal songs of the valley streams in the dark and remote side...

After secondary Diploma in Architecture, GB did not take too long to realize his inclination for curves, colors and abstracts rather than the straight lines, structures and the likes. He had returned to his loved trade after one year of draftsmanship with a construction firm. Who also holds Masters in Economics from the University of Mysore.

From 2001 to 2005, he has worked as digital illustrator for few magazines in Bangalore. Five of his artworks and a couple of digital artworks were selected and exhibited in the Lalitha Kala Academy Centenary Celebration Group Art Exhibition in 2002. He has conducted several Solo exhibitions in different cities across India.