Swapnendu Bhaumik

B F A ; Painter , Poet & Critic; b April 16 , 1944 Sylhet (Bangladesh) ; m Nandita , two d; Educ Govt Colllege of Arts & Crafts , Copy Writer : Benso, FD Stewart ,IAM and Kallol ( ad agency ) 1969-73; Freelance Copy Writer & Visualizer , Studio Artscope 1970 -73 ; ex- Art Critic ; Nandan (Freelance) ,& Janashevak Patrika ; Editor , Prekhhsan (quarterly literary magazine ) 1962- 9; Examiner ,Calcutta Univ 1990 - ; Co -ordinator ; Oikotan ; Texas (USA) ; Founder Member ; Creative Wave ; ex - Electoral Member ; Lalit Kala Academy (LKA) ,New Delhi ; ex - Member , Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom . Participation in Exhibitions: Annual Examination , LKA, New Delhi 1970 All India Exhibition, All India Fine Arts & crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi 1971, Annual show , Birla Academy of Art & Culture , Kolkata 1973 lka Show , Bangalore 1995 , All India Show , Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA) Art Gallery , Kolkata 2004 ; Solo exebitions : Birla Academy of Art & Culture 1974 , International Airports Authority Kolkata Airport 1987 ; Group shows America Univ Centre , Kolkata 1976 , LKA , New Delhi 2000 ,2004,2007, Birla Academy of Art & Culture 2005 , Academy of Fine Arts , Kolkata 2006 , Samokal Art Gallery ,Kolkata 2000 works in private collections in India and abroad ; partiicipations in camps ; Art Camp , Max Mueller Bhavan 1978 , AIFACS Art Camp , Amritsar 2004 ; Awards , Silver Medal (Prof. Chintamoni Kar Award) , Govt College of Arts & Crafts 1966 Cert of Merit , AIFACS , New Delhi 1970 , Sr Fellowship , Govt . College of Arts & Crafts 1966 Cert of Merit , AIFACS , New Delhi 1970 , Fellowship , Govt of India , New Delhi 2000.

Such works of art cannot be rationally explained without some theory of the unconcious origin of imagery . In the state in which I admittedly paint these pictures , it is obviously in the conditionof self -hypnosis. Apart from my asthetic consideration the value of such art will depend on the significance of the imagery which I bring to the surface of my paintings directly . The colours of my compositions are clear and strident and based with simple and architectural lines.

My paintings are basically on lines with abstract motivation and it is derived from mural paintings to easel paintings . I dont know in advance what I am going to put on my paper or canvas , nor do I decide , what colours to use .I dont will to do any thing , I do not seek to do any thing, I allow my sensibilities a free rein , paints in a trance - a trance which has all the acutness, the visual definiteness of dreams . But all depends on what I mean by the act of seeing . I see outwardly and represent yhe apparent nature of things and I see inwardly and represent the world of the imagination