Indian Artist
India’s art scene draws on an enormous range of traditions, from classical miniature painting and temple sculpture to a fast growing contemporary art world in cities like Mumbai and Delhi. This section gathers painters, sculptors, and photographers from India, spanning that same range between deep cultural heritage and bold modern experimentation. Color, pattern, and storytelling often run through the work here, whether an artist is working in a traditional style or a completely contemporary one. Explore this section to see how Indian artists carry centuries of visual culture into work being made right now.
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Suchitra Bhosle | Indian Artist
Suchitra Bhosle is an Indian American painter working in a realist, softly impressionistic style, known for portraits and the female figure. She grew up in Bangalore, moved to the United States in 2001, and has since studied with artists like Richard Schmid and won awards from the Portrait Society of America.
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Arup Lodh | Indian Artist
Arup Lodh is an Indian painter from Kolkata whose work explores the city’s two faces, the old Kolkata he knows through family stories and the fast changing modern city of malls, high rises and dot com era growth. His paintings sit alongside scenes of crowded slums and narrow lanes, capturing both the energy and the…
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Palas Biswas | Indian Artist
Palas Biswas is an Indian watercolor artist from Kolkata, West Bengal, who works primarily in oil but has spent years learning to let watercolor move on its own terms rather than trying to control it. His portraits focus on inner emotion over surface likeness, using loose, rhythmic brushwork and dramatic washes of color to capture…
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Amit Kapoor | Indian Artist
Amit Kapoor is a leading Indian watercolor painter born in New Delhi in 1975, trained at the College of Art, New Delhi and Jiwaji University. He founded the Watercolour Society of India and serves as Vice President of the International Watercolor Society Global, known for his skilled handling of light, shadow and perspective. He has…
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Rajkumar Sthabathy | Indian Artist
Rajkumar Sthabathy is an Indian watercolor artist working from a studio near Auroville, known for evocative street scenes of rickshaw drivers, fish sellers and water carriers that capture the heat, dust and rhythm of everyday Indian life. He describes his creative process as intuitive and almost involuntary, painting the ordinary people around him with deep…
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Elayaraja Swaminathan | Indian Artist
Elayaraja Swaminathan (1979 to 2021) was an Indian realist painter born in Tamil Nadu, holding a Master’s degree in painting from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai. Working mainly in oil, he painted rural Tamil Nadu life with a sensitive handling of light and shadow, often portraying women in traditional dress going about daily…
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Raghunath Sahoo | Indian Artist
Raghunath Sahoo is an Indian watercolor artist from Bhubaneswar who studied at BK Art College and has been working as a freelance artist for more than 20 years. Known for his handling of light and shade, he paints scenes of rural Odisha, its people and villages, along with a popular series depicting Lord Buddha. He…
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Meeta Dani | Indian Artist
Meeta Dani is an Indian-born watercolor artist based in North America (older profiles say Burnaby, Canada, her website lists Texas), who spent over a decade as a senior engineer before turning to art full time. Entirely self-taught, she began painting with watercolor in 2015 and quickly gained international recognition for her hyper-realistic portraits, birds and…
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Kishor Singh | Indian Artist
Kishor Singh is an Indian visual artist born in 1977, trained at the Calcutta Government College of Arts and Crafts, who works in watercolor, oil, and photography from his base in Hyderabad. His paintings weave the city’s monuments, like the Charminar, into broader scenes of light, weather, and everyday street life, as seen in his…
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Chandan Pramanik | Watercolor Paintings | Indian Artist
Chandan Pramanik is an Indian watercolor artist who earned an MFA in painting from IKSV Khairagarh and a BVA in applied art from Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata, despite growing up in a family with no connection to art. His loose, mood-driven watercolors capture everyday Indian life, fairgrounds, trains, and quiet city scenes, and have…
