Who is Jyothi Basu?

Jyothi Basu studied at the College of Fine Arts Kerala in the 1980s, during which time he was affiliated with the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association.

What makes Jyothi Basu’s art unique?

In Jyothi Basu’s detailed drawings and paintings, disparate spheres of the urban and rural, ancient and futuristic, and organic and geometric converge to create fantastic landscapes. Jyothi Basu studied at the College of Fine Arts Kerala in the 1980s, during which time he was affiliated with the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association.

What can we learn from Basu’s latest paintings?

Referring to his own rebirth as a painter after nine years of working as a set designer for television channels, Basu’s latest paintings are tinged with tones of the fantastic and ephemeral. But these sweeping landscapes and bright and vivid flora conceal deeper messages – bejeweled flowers are just as prickly as they are pretty.