My Art MY STORY

Art is a Pleasure for Anindya Roy. He narrates his journey of art and how it is a balm for his soul

- Anindya Roy

Since childhood drawing was a means of enjoying a good mood. It would help me pass quality time with myself. My grandmother’s stories from epics and various legendary artists’ paintings and sculptures also made me fall in love with art. That’s why, in the early days of my life, I enrolled in a local art school.

I gained experience with mixed media and charcoal medium, basically drawing cities and surrounding objects. During that time, being influenced by middle class life, dreams etc., I nurtured the idea of making compositions.

I developed a deep interest in art after graduation and set my goal to become an artist. I used to go to nearby villages and suburban areas for practicing sketching and studying nature. I felt nature is our all-time teacher. But when I joined the Sketches Club at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata and simultaneously got associated with my favourite artist, Sri Shyamal Dutta Roy, my voyage of serious art started. As a self-taught independent artist, living away from the urban life, I acquired maturity and a unique style. I tried for an individual vision with the fantasy of images around the nostalgic, melancholic Calcutta – my city. Here, my emotion, braveness of mind and experience evoked my concept. In my art, nature is the main source of idea and environment, and figures and daily experience have been always parts of the composition.