Suchitra Bhosle paints in a realist, representational way, pulling a lot from early 20th century naturalist painters. She mixes that with a softer impressionistic feel, catching small everyday scenes and the moods floating around them. Portraits and the female figure are still her main thing, though she has been leaning more into city scenes and bits of architecture lately.
Her work shows in strong galleries across the U.S., from Santa Fe to Washington D.C., and she has picked up awards from the Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America, and the American Impressionist Society. She grew up in Bangalore with art all around her thanks to her dad and grandmother, and even won a UNESCO kids competition at nine. After a short time in the corporate world she moved to the U.S. in 2001 and went back to painting full time.
In the States she studied with artists she admired like Richard Schmid, Jeremy Lipking, Scott Christensen, Dan Gerhartz and Sherrie McGraw. Living in Sacramento, she has been represented by galleries in Santa Fe and D.C. She also spends time digging into painters she loves such as Sargent, Zorn, Sorolla, Fechin and Bastien Lepage, trying to understand how they handled light and color in their own way.
The female figure still pulls her the most. She tries to paint not just the model but the whole feeling around her, the air, the quiet, the mood of the moment. Her strong grasp of anatomy and color helps her do that. When she is not painting she teaches locally and shares the same joy she found in art when she was a kid.