Shalini Chanda

I have been painting for as long as I remember, of course the “medium” changed with age. Water colour fascinated me as a child, now its Oil on Canvas which takes a precedence. Having grown up in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India all my life- the city, its art and culture must have had a profound effect. One of my earliest creations of Oil on Canvas was of a lazy afternoon street scene in Calcutta. The crows perched on the electric wire could be an influence of following too many RK Laxman (a national daily cartoonist) cartoons in the English dailies. This painting remains as one of my favourites. I have done private study in Painting (Oil and Water colour) for 14 years. One of my earliest recollections of learning art from my teacher (Mr Debashish Ghosh, trained at the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, India ) was how to draw a perfect hut with a tree perched behind it-a perfect village scenery; I think I can now draw it with closed eyes. It was also the first time I learnt that painting green fields is like painting a patchwork of shades of yellow and green. It was a great journey since then and I now realise my one-time one-dimensional and monotonic painting has over the years evolved into art. And after 14 years in Bank...

Private study in Art, otherwise MBA, Economics Graduate from India and a Masters in Finance Graduate from London Business School.