Pritam Bhatty

India. Deep in the resonance of an inward journey Pritam Bhatty grapples with the paradoxes that crowd her life. Her painterly quest enters subliminal dimensions where the unreal strongly tilts into the real unleashing a stream of memories, events, fantasies, hallucinations and magical transformations. The fragility and strength of these shifting perspectives metamorphose the psyche and inundate Pritams creative matrix. Her painterly eye tracks these transformations within the inner and outer layers of her being. Working in water colours, charcoal and pencil Pritam captures the epiphany of the fleeting images that surface within her.In her present body of work her larger aquarelles are energized by an amorphous, enigmatic quality. In several compositions her protagonists seem to be suspended between being and nothingness as they struggle to achieve meaning and equilibrium. Objects and persona are placed within shifting colour fields that grow out of layered, stained grounds. Monumental figures occupy the central spaces in several paintings. Compositionally Pritam manipulates a complex grid of overlaid images that hold the narrative thread that binds her quasi-abstract work. Water colour with its willful elusiveness is a med...

1982 Diploma in Fine Art from Sir J.J School of Fine Art, Bombay.1990Solo exhibition of drawings and paintings at Art Heritage Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi1991Solo exhibition of drawings and paintings at Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay.1993Participated in a joint show of drawings and paintings with Alka Sanadi Tyagi, at Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay1993Participated in traveling show of Indian artists organized by SAHMAT (Safdar Hashmi Artists Trust) New Delhi.1996Solo exhibition of drawings and paintings at Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay.1997 Participated in a women artists group show of paintings and sculpture to commemorate 50 years of Indian independence 1947-971998Participated in a group exhibition of oil and water colour paintings of contemporary Indian artists, Dubai2000Participated in a group show of etchings at Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay.2004Participated in Women by women group show. ICCR New Delhi2004Women artists on Amrita Shergil, Tashkent and Moscow2004Women on Women at the Bangalore International Art Festival2004Mind of a Woman, group show at Art Chamber, Galeria de belas Artes, Goa2005Group show, South Africa, organised by ICCR New Delhi2006 MarchSolo show at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai2006 MayGroup show Summer Rites, Gallery Be...