Ajay Chakradhar, a self- taught artist from Jharkhand has been in this field for the past twenty years. His specialty is abstract art. But he gives them an innovative twist with a mix of minerals and ores of iron, manganese, coal, bauxite, mica and acrylics to create them. The rough and coarse texture of the minerals and its muted earthy colours give a dimensional effect to the painted surface. Natural chrome, cadmium, haematite, manganese, ochre and kaolin with wooden dust, coir, ash and earth dust are also used in his paintings. In 1992, he moved to Bombay and establ ...