Swarup Dandapat

- Professional artist with 20+ years of design experience

- Exhibited in Paris, London, Dubai and New Delhi

- Art in Private Collections in the US, the UK and the EU

- Member of Federation of British Artists (Hesketh Hubbard Art Society, 2016-2017)

- Participated in International Watercolour Festivals

- Visiting Faculty in premier design institutes

- Formally trained from Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata


I am Swarup, a professional artist with 20+ years of design experience selling paintings and sketches worldwide. My artworks have so far been exhibited in Paris, London, Dubai and New Delhi, and acclaimed by a global clientele. I have been a member of Federation of British Artists (Hesketh Hubbard Art Society) in the past.

I love painting cities. I have travelled to many cities in Europe and Asia (and lived in some of them, too). The city with its labyrinth of main thoroughfares, serpentine lanes, by-lanes and alleys makes me again and again fall in love with it. Madly. It makes me paint the bits and pieces of its soul not always as they are, but as my mind reckons them to be. Watercolour, with a character of its own, empowers me to recreate the magic realism of the city, its people, and its ar...

Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata (1st Class) in 1999.

May 2021 – Ongoing
Painting exhibition in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

January – July 2019
Painting exhibition at Le Marais, Paris

April – December 2018
Painting exhibition at Paris Bercy

February 2018
1st International Watercolour Festival UAE, Dubai

December 2017
2nd International Watercolour Society India Biennale 2017, New Delhi

2016
Hesketh Hubbard Art Society Annual Exhibition (Life Drawing), Mall Galleries, London