Vijay Kiyawat

Vijay started painting late in life. To hasten his learning he is pursuing art vigorously, with the same passion as he put into his 40-year corporate career, after graduating from IIT Kharagpur.

Vijay loves doing watercolors. This medium poses challenges like no other. The spontaneity, the uncertainty, the vividness and life-like emotions, harmonize well with his optimism, creativity, and quickness of decision-making.

The elements of nature emerge as human mind or human bodies in some of his paintings. He predominantly adopts the wet-in-wet watercolor technique, where the "unexpected" happens.


Meditation Series: The meditation series portrays agitation of mind at one end (before) and tranquility at another (after). The paintings having elements of nature such as buds, flowers, leaves, twigs, fruits, trunks, create this transition in interesting and abstract manner. The transition is from bottom to top or sideways, or diagonally.

My Dream Garden Series: In this series monuments mingle with gardens in colorful and abstract manner, creating beautiful mystery.

Ritu-Sanhaar Series: Some 1500 years ago, the great ancient poet Kaalidaas wrote a lyrical poem named Ritu-Sanhaar in Sanskri...

B.Tech. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from India's premier institute, the IIT Kharagpur

Solo show in New Delhi in October 2010
Solo show in new Delhi in october 2011
Solo show in Singapore in April 2012