HER PROFILE AS AN ARTIST : |
1954 : Born in Calcutta
1978 : Diploma in Fine Art (L.N.M) from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata.
1980 : Diploma in Indian Style Drawing & Painting from Govt. College of Art & Craft,
Kolkata. |
HER SOLO EXHIBITIONS : |
Year |
Exhibitions |
Year |
Exhibitions |
2006 |
Leela Art Gallery, Mumbai |
1999 |
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. |
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SHE HAS PARTICIPATED IN : |
Year |
Participation |
Year |
Participation |
2006 |
Monsoon Exhibition at Leela Art Gallery - Mumbai. |
2005 |
Ramkrishna Mission & Culture - Golpark, Kolkata. |
2003 |
Chitram Art Gallery , Cochin. |
2003 |
Synagogue Art Gallery, Cochin. |
1998 |
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata. |
1997 |
Calcutta Metropolitan Art Fair - Kolkata. |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS : |
Year |
Exibhitions |
Year |
Exibhitions |
2008 |
‘Group’ Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. |
2007 |
Bengal Artist Society, sponsored by Gallery Exposure, Kolkata. |
2007 |
Teachers Govt. College of Art & Craft, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. |
2007 |
Teachers Govt. College of Art & Craft, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. |
2007 |
Bengal Artist Society, Artist Center, Mumbai. |
2006 |
Bengal Artist Society, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. |
2005 |
Group Exhibition by the Members of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. |
2005 |
Bengal Artist Society, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. |
2005 |
Teachers Govt. College of Art & Craft, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. |
2000 |
Calcutta Artists Guild Exhibition, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi. |
1999 |
P.T.T.I. Artists Association, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. |
1998 |
P.T.T.I. Artists Association, Information Centre, Kolkata. |
1986 |
R.F.I. Artists Association, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. |
1985 |
R.F.I. Artists Association, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. |
1979 - 85 |
As a founder member of "Fantasy" - Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata. |
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ART WORKSHOPS : |
Year |
Venue |
Year |
Venue |
2006 |
Chintamoni Kar Memorial Art Workshop Camp, INDIAN NATIONAL Forum of Art & Culture - Kolkata. |
2006 - 07 |
Chintamoni Kar Memorial Art Workshop Camp, INDIAN NATIONAL Forum of Art & Culture - Kolkata. |
2006 |
Shristi Art Workshop Camp, Kolkata. |
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APPRECIATIONS : |
Appreciated by several eminent art critics, artists, intellectuals and art lovers of Kolkata. Published various art criticisms about my style and origination of works in several magazines and newspapers, such as The Statesman, The Economic Times, Sunmarg, Desh, Paribartan, Jugantar etc. since 1979. |
HONOURS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES : |
Year |
Honours & Activities |
Year |
Honours & Activities |
2005 |
Founder member of Bengal Artist Society - Kolkata. |
2005 |
Member of Bombay Art Society - Mumbai. |
2005 |
Member of Academy of Fine Arts - Kolkata. |
2000 |
Founder member of 'Creative Wave' - Kolkata. |
1997 - 98 |
Invited as a Jury in the Child Art Competition organised by South Calcutta Scout & Guides - Kolkata. |
1980 |
Invited as a Jury in the Spring Festival, I.I.T., Kharagpur - West Bengal. |
1979 |
Founder member of Fantasy Artists Group to popularize the new trend in the art movement of Bengal. |
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HER PRIVATE COLLECTIONS : |
Some private collections in India & abroad. |
HER INNER VISION ( AN INSIGHT OF MY PAINTINGS ) : |
I do have a faith in phenomenal nature as the ultimate source of forms and configurations. I infact, selectively recollect the memory of observed contents as ordered configuration of colour- masses with shapes defined by contour lines on two dimentional pictorial surface, divided up into flat colour areas. These shapes and spaces are residue of images of phenomenal terrains, sky, land, roads, plants and juxtaposes do not have any reference of the natural phenomenon. On the contrary, they tend to be expressive, similarly, the contour lines with which I enclose the shapely colour masses, endow the shapes with strange kind of organic rhythm, making my art spaces look as if they are expressionistic. My paintings are at a junction between representationalism, formalism and expressionism.
The suggestive colours, common symbols upheld by lucid plastic rhythms and inventive shapes develop in my own style with definite ease. The insistent flowing, vegetative rhythms of semi-abstract and abstract compositions are imbued with my feeling for measure and impeccable sense of visual syntax. |
VIEWS OF MY LIFE : |
I love nature. I like to feel its ever-whelming beauty, truth and power.
The undercurrent of calm, delicate, firm and honest qualities of nature reflects in my search of art works. My thoughtful imaginary word inclined to the reality of human life. I am always open minded to develop my ideas philosophically from the daily lives of the common people. I am grateful to many of them, are accompanied with me for helping in my several domestic and other activities of my daily life, so that I could be able to concentrate and devote myself in my creative artwork.
I believe that every human life in love and wishes to love each another. Nobody knows the ending moment of life. This is the basic truth of human life that is what I used to inculcate in my art aesthetically. |
SWATI ROY ........ A SUCCESSFUL ARTIST : |
There are artists who still believe in fundamental concept, skill applications, themes which must be rooted in soil. Swati Roy, a luminary of Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta, India are deeply involve with experiments as a contemporary creative artist. She is continuing her work since 1970's. Her paintings have a magical sensibility, essence of both western and Indian art. Her perfection, themes, non-figurative abstract compositions are really unusual. She has created her typical style of painting which is very much of her own.
Her work is in the genre of classic modernism and expressionism. Her paintings are boldly pictorial of her deepest thoughts. As she says, "I paint what moves me, the paintings have developed with my thoughts, nature is my inspiration". |
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