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animesh roy
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Biography
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Animesh Roy is inspired by the furious passion of Van Gogh, the adventure and grit in Papillon and Robert Louis Stevenson, Messner for being alone with the mountains, the total irreverence and bohemia of Henry Miller, rebellious youths in The Wild One, â?oWhat are you rebelling against? Whatâ?Tve you got?â??, the sublime serenity of Tagore and Ray, and courage and greatness of the Mahatma.
Born in one of the most artistic places in Bengal, Krishnagar, famous for its clay sculptures, Roy has been crisscrossing since a child as his parents had transferable jobs. A sense of adventure was instilled in him as a child through treks in the Himalayas â?" â?oWalking down to Saat Taal and getting lost on the way back in the darkness.....â??
Inspiration comes from adventure, travel, meeting people, visiting villages, monasteries, temples, churches, mosques, and graveyards. He would not be able to work in the confines of a comfortable city studio. Though many of his works do get physically done in a studio â?" the germs are born on the road, while traveling, soaking in.
Roy has been a rebel and a traveller and his natural skills are completely untrained. His artistic growth did get stunted from four years of exile in the Delhi College of Art, trying to get a meaningless â?~art degreeâ?T. He planned for a â?~breakâ?T like Papillon succeeding with two back to back solo shows just out of college in 1992. Earning the ire of the art critics and his art college professors!
Since then Roy has had six solo shows in major Indian cities.
Roy traveled to Ladakh in 1995 in the comforts of an aircraft and called it â?" Travels with a Donkey â?" an R. L. Stevenson travelogue. He did some 100 drawings in and around Leh.
Then in 1997 onwards he went into a hiatus â?" reading, learning how to drive and traveling furiously whenever his budget would allow â?" Nepal, Bhutan, America, Sikkim, Gahrwal, Himachal, Rajasthan, Kutch, UP, Bengal, Goa, Madras. He stopped painting and exhibiting, cutting himself off from the â?~art worldâ?T. But continued quietly to do pen-and-ink drawings of places visited.
From 1996-2004 Roy did extensive pen-and-ink drawing of Delhiâ?Ts ruins: Mehrauli, Tughlakhabad, Adilabad, Sri, Sultan Ghari, Old Delhi etc., while constantly planning his next trip to Leh by road via Manali a distance of over 3,000 km from Delhi and back.
In 2004 he went back to Ladakh, this time traveling alone in his jeep, battling severe high altitude sickness, driving through some of the worldâ?Ts highest altitude roads and passes. He paints this time.
Early 2006 â?" he visited Banares â?" and came back to his studio in Delhi to produce some 30 odd paintings in acrylics on canvas mostly inspired by the spring and summer of Delhi and a new found joy in his heart.
Roy is back to his first love â?" painting.
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The summer of 2006 Roy went back to the Himalayasâ?¦ the Kullu Valley in Himachal Pradesh. Painting the waterfalls and mountainscapes on acrylics on canvas. By the time monsoon came he was back to the planes painting the fields in the villages around Delhi. During this time Roy finally switched to oilsâ?¦ a medium till now avoided by him due to the fear that it was not suited to his temperament! Many wise men had advised him against using oils!! But lately Roy was very unhappy with the results of Acrylic paints.. â?~Itâ?Ts too muddy and thereâ?Ts no sparkleâ?T. So he started oils. Initially it was difficult to work outdoors with oils but he has adapted and has been working since in Oils.
Roy went to Poland in 2007. It was early spring and the earth was coming back to life after a harsh winter... everyday fresh blades of grass and wild flowers would spurt... soon the landscape was flooded with flowering tress, shrubs, herbs... it was difficult to keep pace with ever-changing landscape.. before you could decide and go back to a spot the flowers have gone andA was greeted by something new!
He spent about six months in Poland. Traveling and painting. By the time he packed his easel and paints, he had finished about sixty odd works during his sojourn. Most of the works were done in plein air and when the weather would turn too rough for outdoors, he would do some still life indoors.
Why Poland? Heart has its reason which the mind canâ?Tt fathom....
Presently Roy is painting in Europe again...
animesu@gmail.com
website: www.animeshroy.com
mob: 09810065990 (currently not in use)
contact person in india
ritu topa
mob: +919818469108
studio/residence
48/6 Osiedle Oswiencenia
Poznan
Poland 61-207
mob: +48608619555
Animesh Roy
Since coming out of Delhi College of Art in 1990, Animesh Roy has been painting and drawing a varied of subjects which inspire him...
He has held over seven one artist shows and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
He finds insperation in his travells and many of his works are created in plein air. He would not be able to work in the confines of a comfortable city studio. Though many of his works do get physically done in a studio â?" the germs are born on the road, while traveling, soaking in.
His preferred media is Oil on canvas.
Presently Roy is painting in Europe...
You can contact him on
email:
animesu@gmail.com
website:
www.animeshroy.com
Contact person in India
Ritu Topa
mob: +919818469108
studio/residence
48/6 Osiedle Oswiencenia
Poznan
Poland 61-207
mob: +48608619555
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Exhibitions
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Animesh Roy
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Delhi College of Art 1986-90
Solo Shows
2008
Romantic Days In Poland
Paintings (Oil on Canvas)
Online Solo Show
Indian Art Collectors
http://www.indianartcollectors.com/virtualexhibition.php
2006
A Travellerâ?Ts Palette
Drawings and Paintings (Oils, Acrylic and Pen & Ink)
Open Palm Court Gallery
The Habitat Centre, New Delhi
1996
Drawings and Paintings
(Water Colour, Acrylic, Mix Media and Pen & Ink)
Sophia Duchesne Art Gallery, Bombay
1995
â?oTravels With A Donkeyâ??
Drawings of Ladakh
(Pen and Ink Drawaings)
Mirage: Gallery of Arts, New Delhi
1994
Paintings & Drawings
(Water Colour, Acrylic, Mix Media and Pen & Ink)
Triveni Gallery, New Delhi
1992
â?~On The Roadâ?T Paintings (Acrylic)
M.E.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi
Paintings (Water Colour)
Masterpiece Art Gallery, New Delhi
Two-Artists Show
1995
Paintings & Drawings
(Water Colour, Acrylic, Mix Media and Pen & Ink)
Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
Group Shows
2008
The Art People show
Travanecore Art Gallery, New Delhi
1994
Paintings (Water Colour and Acrylic)
AIFACS, New Delhi
1992
Paintings (Water Colour)
Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi
Paintings (Acrylic)
M.E.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi
1991
Paintings (Water Colour)
selected by M. F. Hussain
Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
studio/residence
228 - D
Express View Apts
Super MIG
Sector 93 NOIDA (U.P)
Pin 201301
animesu@gmail.com
website: www.animeshroy.com
mob: 09810065990 (currently not in use)
contact person in india
Ritu Topa
mob: +919818469108
studio/residence
48/6 Osiedle Oswiencenia
Poznan
Poland 61-207
mob: +48608619555
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