Animesh Roy

"Animesh Roy paints with a breezy brush, loaded with thick paint catching the ephemeral poetry of colour and light through changing seasons in the woodlands." an Art critic once described Roy's work.

Animesh Roy (b. 1968) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts [BFA] degree from Delhi College of Art, India (1986-90). He is now an internationally well-known painter based in India, Europe and the US. He is also considered as one of the top 'Oil Painters' from India. While most Indian artists have shifted to Acrylic, Roy has been painting in Oil for the last two decades.

Till date he has held over fifteen solo shows and numerous group shows in India and abroad. He has been invited to participate in various international art shows from countries like China, Belarus, Poland, Krygz Republic, Iran, India, Kenya, USA etc. His works have been be acquired by state and private Museums in several European countries and China. Roy also gets invited to participate in various European 'plein air' (art camps) across Europe. The artist's impressionistic style is characterised by visible, expressive brush-strokes, and a painterly impasto. Prefers to paint in Oils in small & large sizes alike and is versatile in varied genres (categories) of painting. viz. Abstract, Figurative, Portrait, Floral, Landscape, Still Life etc. Oil paints are mostly of top European brands and 'prepared' Linen from Italy. He has a thick impasto technique using knife and spatula.

Bright, yet soft, visible textures and bold highlights with strong strokes and vibrant colours are the characteristics of Roy's works. His use of semi-realism gives one the feeling of looking through a window into a world that is as strange as it is familiar, and beautiful in both aspects.

In his Art so in his life, Roy has merged the Orient and the Occident to a beautiful unison!!

Animesh Roy lives and works in both India and Europe.

1986-90 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Delhi College of Art, India

Solo Shows & International Participations

2019-13 Exhibitions & International Participations in China, Belarus, Poland, Krygz Republic, Iran, India, USA etc.

2010-11 Exhibition of Oils, Kamea Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2009 Plein Air in Poland Paintings (Oil, Acrylic on Linen) Online Solo Show, Indian Art Collectors website

2009 Exhibition of Paintings, Slide Show and interactive session with the artist, Galeria Spotkań, Poznan, Poland

2009 Romantic Days In Poland – II, Paintings (Oil on Linen), Online Artist of the Month, Indian Art Collectors website

2008 Romantic Days In Poland, Paintings (Oil on Linen), Online Solo Show, Indian Art Collectors website

2006 A Traveller's Palette, Drawings and Paintings (Oils, Acrylic and Pen & Ink), Open Palm Court Gallery, The Habitat Centre, New Delhi

1996 Drawings and Paintings, (Water Colour, Acrylic, Mix Media and Pen & Ink), Sophie Duchesne Art Gallery, Bombay

1995 Travels With A Donkey, Drawings of Ladakh, (Pen and Ink Drawings), Mirage: Gallery of Art's, New Delhi

1995 Paintings & Drawings, (Water Colour, Acrylic, Mix Media and Pen & Ink), Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta

1994 Paintings & Drawings, (Water Colour, Acrylic, Mix Media and Pen & Ink), Triveni Gallery, New Delhi

1992 ‘On The Road’ Paintings (Acrylic), M.E.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi

1992 Paintings (Water Colour and Mixed Media), Masterpiece Art Gallery, New Delhi


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 The Art People show, (Oil, Acrylic on Canvas), AIFACS, New Delhi

2008 The Art People show, (Oil, Acrylic on Canvas), Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi

1994 Paintings (Water Colour and Acrylic), AIFACS, New Delhi

1992 Paintings (Water Colour), Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi

1992 Paintings (Acrylic), M.E.C. Art Gallery, New Delhi

1991 Paintings (Water Colour and Mixed Media), selected by M. F. Hussain, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

Animesh Roy from being placed 2nd among hundreds (if not thousand?) in the entrance exam into Delhi Art College way back in 1986 till now have received "Award & Recognition" world wide especially from various countries like China, Belarus, Poland, Krygz Republic etc.

I owe my presence as an artist/painter on the Web (World Wide Web) to Mojarto. Starting off as I did in the early 1990s, we had to depend on Art galleries run in real spaces, till the Internet intervened and changed all that!! The dependence on snooty upmarket galleries, a scourge on young artists finally ended. And Mojarto is one of the early pioneers to bring together artists and art collectors on the Web.