Uttam Chapte is a graduate of Pune's Abhinav art college who fulfilled his early promise as a landscapist by winning the prestigious Gondhalekar award. His abstract work are marked by flaring and dynamic forms rendered in his fluid style. Chapte is engrossed in his quest to depict the free flowing forms of nature in all their myriad nuances and rhythms. They seem to burst out of his canvas suffused with his inner feelings and concerns. His soulful alchemy ...