Their world is my canvas – Interacting with Bireswar Sen

A piece of blank canvas is a welcoming invitation to fill its soul with colours, artworks, design and ultimately a piece of our mind. That’s what makes a canvas a “canvas.”

On being invited by the National Gallery of Modern Art, which was displaying the famous paintings of a renowned modern landscape artist – Bireswar Sen (1897-1974). The world he had created was so mesmerising and engaging that I took Sen’s world and made it my own canvas.

With the theme of ‘Man and Nature,’he creates expanses that become etched in memory. What is to also note is that they were painted on a piece of paper that are the size of a smaller than a playing card.

The art, where the all encompassing elements of nature engulf and dwarf the existence of man, painted a world so serene and pure that it invited me to be a part of it and perhaps leave a stroke of my own.

Here’s my journey with one of Sen’s characters:

 

 

Learn more about Bireswar Sen : http://www.bireswarsen.com/