ABOUT ANAND PANCHAL

My perspective is of a villager, says Panchal. Born in Latur, Maharashtra, Anand Panchal is a critically acclaimed artist who studied at the J.J School of Art in Mumbai. From capturing the simplicity of village life to the richness of Indian mythology, the artist displays great range, punctuating the figurative and symbolic elements with abstract spaces, making his paintings appear vast as well as intimate. His incandescent art documents the enduring soul of India, as seen in its indigenous culture, beliefs and traditions. Lyrical, rustic worlds take centre stage in Panchal’s acrylics on canvas. Like the notes beguiling of a lilting, many-hued raga, Anand Panchal’s compositions are coloured in a radiant palette of brilliant reds, blues and ochres. His impasto knifework transforms into a finely blended surface seamlessly, creating depth in his works. The bold colours are balanced out perfectly with his signature technique of combining the smooth and the textured in his application of paint. With imagery that is poetic and magical, communicating the artist’s mastery of technique, Panchal’s artworks command a presence that is ever lasting. Many of Panchal’s paintings are done in a long, narrow format, which he describes as mimicking the figures of the children that he is painting. In his paintings, the upper portion of the canvas is often devoted to iconic images that indicate the dreams of the foregrounded figure.