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Animesh Roy - India

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Member since 2007-09-05

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, "What are you rebelling against? What've you got?", 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 - 'Walking down to Saat Taal and getting lost on the way back in the darkness.....' 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 - the germs are born on the road, while travelling, 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 'art degree'. He planned for a 'break' 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 travelled to Ladakh in 1995 in the comforts of an aircraft and called it - Travels with a Donkey - an R. L. Stevenson travelogue. He did some 100 drawings in and around Leh. Then in 1997 onwards he went into a hiatus - reading, learning how to drive and travelling furiously whenever his budget would allow - Nepal, Bhutan, America, Sikkim, Gahrwal, Himachal, Rajasthan, Kutch, UP, Bengal, Goa, Madras. He stopped painting and exhibiting, cutting himself off from the 'art world'. But continued quietly to do pen-and-ink drawings of places visited. From 1996-2004 Roy did extensive pen-and-ink drawing of Delhi's 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 DelhiLadakh, this time travelling alone in his jeep, battling severe high altitude sickness, driving through some of the world's highest altitude roads and passes. He paints this time. Early 2006 - he visited Banares - 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 - painting. Here in the website are a glimpses of his works since 1990. You can buy them, view them or reproduce them. But do seek his permission. Roy is not too fussy about his medium.. he has always done on the spot sketches and drawings in pen and ink, and have used Water Colour, Acrylics and Oils. Note that not all works are for sale, some are already sold and a few he won't part with even in exchange for the 'Taj'!