B A R U N R O Y

Beyond the obvious

Barun Roy (b. 1937) is a self-trained painter noted for his unconventional style and experimentation. His work is largely non-figurative and his approach to nature is intimate, emotional, and essentially abstract in its concept and basic simplicities of form, composition, and colour. He looks for the inner tensions and the essential correlations in nature, broken down in various contrasting, and often clashing, layers and planes. Shorn of all redundancies, Barun Roy’s landscapes seek to overcome and transform reality and represent an inner world of calm, awe, and wonder. “Reality is not what we see but what we feel it to be deep within,” Barun says. “Art is the expression of that deeper feeling. The job of the artist is not to imitate nature but break it down in the crucible of the mind and rearrange the elements to arrive at a new creative truth. To be obvious is to be ordinary.