At a time when tempera works were invariably associated by art enthusiasts with the work of master ‘stylists', Gautam Basu extended and enriched its possibilities to include a distinctively different form of visual interpretation. His “soft focus world of the back garden and the still life” reflect a deeply contemplative poetic vision. A vivid freshness – and sense of infinite serenity – permeates his luminous canvases drenched in smudged overflows of soft, bright color. No excesses of ‘angst', no philosophical reflections impinge on the delicacy of his poignantly beautiful paintings. Yet they emanate, with understated force – through imagery that wavers between abstraction and reality, definite delineation and blurred color – a strange kind of relevance. They speak of the loss of nature and the passage of time; the richness of introspection and the subtle beauties that reside in ordinary objects, lonely people and lonely animals and myriad threads of elusive emotion.

R.P. Gupta writes “Gautam Basu is a self taught painter. I consider this a boon because unimaginative academic grinding has not blunted his ‘instinctive' feel for line and color, and his eye for composition… (his) luminous paintings … are invested with a touch of mystery … (they) please both the eye and the mind of the beholder … one feels that one can live with them … in the final analysis this is all that matters when one is alone with a painting.”

GB001 `Flowers 1`   10.5" X 5.5"   email us for price	GB002 `Flowers 2`   6.5" X 4.5"   email us for price	GB003 `Sunflowers`   9.5" X 6.5"   email us for price
GB004 `She`   10" X 5.5"   email us for price	GBN5652 `My Garden`   28" X 12.5"   email us for price	GBN5649 `Flower Pots` gouche on paper     email us for price