When one listens to the heart and is passionately with something, there is nothing to hold back. Bharat thripathi, a Mumbai based artist, just love to paint. His work are very conceptual and thematic. He is greatly inspire by the Indian mythology and religions, and present them in a figurative abstract form. He believes that the art of religion is the best of all arts and the story of religion is the best of all stories. Hit themes are very strong but he expresses them on canvas in simplistic forms, which clearly reflects his knowledge and depth on the subject.

He was always interested in art and won many awards in his early part of his life. His passion got buried in his quest for a career in civil services, when he joined the Indian revenue service in 1988. Double graduate from Harvard university, USA, where he has done management and masters in international taxation from Harvard law school.

He kept his interest alive though it was only limited to visiting the art galleries in india or abroad. He picked up the brush once again in the year 1999-2000 after a change meeting with raza who not only inspired but also encouraged his to paint. He mentored his for about 10 year and opened his first solo show in 2009. He is presently under the tutelage of Ms Anjolie Ela Menon for the last five years.

My present works are inspired form Ramayana, one of our greatest epics and the story is known to almost every Indian. Ramayana is divided into chapers called kaand. For instance baalkaand is from the birth of rama to his marriage to sita; ayodhya kaand is the exile of rama for 14 years; aranya kaand is the time spent by rama, sita and lakshman in the forest where shoorpanakha tries to unsuccessfully seduce rama and as revenge ravana abducts sita; kishkindha kaand is when rama and laksham reach kiskindha in search of sita meet sugreev, the king of vaanar (monkeys); sunder kaand is entirely dedicated to hanuman and rama reaching lanka and killing of ravana, sita’s agni pariksha, and rama coming back to ayodhya after 14 year of exile to become the king of ayodhya. Uttar kaand is believed to have been written later, which narrates banishment of sita, birth of luv kush, the sons of rama, aswamedha yagna and sita entering the earth her mother.

He has four very successful solo shows to his credit so far. ”Tirthankars” February 2014, Jahangir ArtGallery, Mumbai,”The story of shiva” December 2012, coomaraswamy hall, price of wales museum, Mumbai, “Dashavatar” 2011 at museum art gallery Mumbai, “Navdurga” at Hacienda art Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai February 2009. He has participated in several group shows, national as well as international, and has been invited to participate in various art camps in india and abroad. His works are part of national Archives and feature in the coffee table book on art released by the hon’ble president of india in july 2011.

Bharat Tripati