Artist Shashikant Bane on India Art

Shashikant Bane
Shashikant Bane, a devoted painter belongs to Deorukh, Ratnagiri in Konkan. His childhood memories of the beauty of this region which is known an Parashuram-Bhumi, has created a nostalgia in his mind.

His art-education at Kolhapur and then in Mumbai brought maturity to his love of landscape paintings. The guidance of the master paintings of Kolhapur like Ganpatrao Wadangekar, R.S. Gosavi and Ravindra Mestry enhanced his water colour rendering. The beauty of line and Indian Style figure of Datta Parulekar in Bandra school of Art, Mumbai, added strength to his figurative compositions. His nostalgic memories of Konkan landscape, his tour to Rajasthan and his study of paintings of N.S. Bendre, the famous master colorist resulted into the superb colour- orchestration and the indigenous quality of his paintings. The amalgams of the various experiences and experiments in the technical aspects and the presentation have brought a unique quality in his painting which attracts art-lovers as well as the laymen.
Previous Shows
1985,87,89,92,94,97,2000 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1986 : Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore
1980,90,91,92,99 : Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai
1992,99 : Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta
1993 : Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai                                                                                                                         more...