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Artist Profile
| Chandrima Bhattacharyya |
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CHANDRIMA BHATTACHARYYA :
Chandrima Bhattacharya is a study in contrast. On one hand, this 42-year old artist is an avid hard rock fan. On the other, she is a caring mother of two kids. Having grown up in Rourleka, she has settled for the quiet, poetic surroundings of Santiniketan as a home. Bhattacharya, whose late husband taught at Kala Bhavan there, is the essential painter, preferring to paint on small canvasses, detailing every inch of her work meticulously. She started with drawing, using ink on paper, and later used various kinds of coloured inks to draw her images, her initial aspirations being the Ajanta murals and Picasso’s early works. Right now, however, she prefers her detailed canvases, most reflecting women as self-portraits.
“My paintings have a nightmarish quality about them,” says Bhattacharya. Not just that, her works show a desire to break free of established norms. Middle-aged women are dressed grotesquely while trying to fend off a hand-like creeper, and some of her figures even have wings in an attempt to fly. Most of her backgrounds are either night skies or tiled floors, lending a kind of dreamy quality to her works. Bhattacharya was, for a while, the curator of the Kala Mandir faculty museum. She gave that up to raise her kids and become a full time painter. Having held numerous exhibitions all over the country, she was of a set of young Indian artists who get displayed at an event at the Royal College of London in 2008.
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