Prakash Ambegaonkar

I am an Architect by profession. After a long and rewarding career in USA, I have returned to India with my wife.

Due to my childhood passion of drawing and painting I have taken a full retirement from my Architectural career and now solely devote my time to Paintings.

I use a number of mediums, which include, pencils, watercolor pencils, acrylic, airbrush and digital stylus.
I never use photographic or ready to use images in my digital work.

Most of my work can be categorized as conceptual abstract expressionism.

However, like the modern movement, I believe that a painting is a form created by an artist on a two dimensional surface.

This form must be fully developed in it self and interesting and engaging in the eyes of the observer. Granted, the observer's receptors can be engaged in numerous ways and methods, I try to create that interest by taking the observer on an intimate journey of color, texture, transparency, tones, spaces, voids, solids, objective and non objective figures / symbols that may articulate my inner feelings. The process is normally spontaneous, which should show through my paintings. I would take familiar figures like a human face and break it down in to non objective /objective shapes and s...

Professional degree in Architecture.

Solo exhibition on January 9th, 2018 at Faculty of Fine Arts. MS University, Vadodara, India

A review of the above exhibition:

1: He divulges his affinity with the abstract expressionism and terms himself as ‘conceptual abstract expressionist’. Though not obliged to doctrinal taxonomy, I do feel that the emotive charge and the role of subconscious in his expression justify his conviction. His abstract parlance is not reached through distillation of the representational, but a baffling fruition of the volitions and coercions whirling in the depths of mind which he dexterously translates in visual terms, using the computer screen only as a canvas.

2: Amazing mixture and amalgamation of vibrancy of colors, thought and unidentified forms.

3: The variation in design pattern and combinations of forms is interesting in it's diversity. Every composition is different, that's a huge credit.