Umesh Patil

Artist Statement:

How does one express the ‘good times in life’? Artist Umesh Patil splurges his canvases with colour – colours of life that blossom, meander, flow with a flourish, as joyous and exuberant as the young artist himself.

With a Government Diploma in Fine Art from the L. S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai, Umesh has gradually grown from his textural and colour-juxtaposed compositions to a maturity in technique, approach and rendering.

the canvases depict a vocabulary of patient indulgence and rarified nurturing. His canvases are referenced from his current state of mind. “Working in the abstract genre, I don’t really know, where I begin and, where I am headed; until that one moment that takes possession of me and urges me to stop; stand back and rejoice in my creation”, he explains.

His palette is unfettered and tends to veer towards the vibrant – Cadmium Red, Crimson Lake, Cerulean Blue, Sap Green, Burnt Sienna, Pyrrole Orange, Cobalt Teal, Hooker’s Green Deep… play with accents of gold and silver. What begins as a dot goes on to become a form with its distinct existence. And every form requires its space; it nudges forward and marks its boundary. But the form has a special character too – it has rhythm. A rhythm that is born of a chain of events that cannot be – do not need to be – reversed.

The application is predominantly knife and roller based with no room for brushwork. Confident strokes of the palette knife merge Umesh’s wandering musings through gentle swishes of the roller and the rhythm moves from abstractness to embodiment of the spontaneous.

“I feel this process is the core of my paintings,” he explains. Colours, textures and forms multiply. Possibilities of change become a natural; merging, transforming, consolidating. “Some forms retain their existence; some get lost in course of time; only paintings remain alive in the present.”

Academics:

2004 – 2008: G.D.Art [Raheja School of Art]
2003 – 2004: Foundation Pass
2001 – 2003: A.T.D. (Vasai vikasini)

Award:
2016 – Bombay Art Society
2006 – Mudra Landscape Competition
2005 – Mudra Landscape Competition
2003 -2004 – Best portfolio ATD 2nd Year

Solo Exhibition:
2017- Pradarshak Art Gallery
2016 – Jehangir Art Gallery
2012 – Pradarshak Art Gallery

Exhibition:
2019– Group Exhibition by The Monalisa Kalagram Presents INTIMATE INSIGHTS (Pune)
2018- Group Exhibition by Turya Artist Group (Artists’ Center)
2017- Art Heart (Kumar Swami)
2015- Lokmangal Foundation(Jehangir Art Gallery)
2014 – 2008 Indian Oil Exhibition
2013 – Art Times in Coomarswamy Hall
2012 – Art Entrance gallery
2012 – Ravindra natya mandir group Exhibition
2011 – 2008- D.D.Neroy Art Gallery
2009 – Art Desh Gallery
2009 – Jehangir Art Gallery
2009 – Wisdom Foundation Tao Art Gallery
2008 – Hirji Jehangir group show
2007 – Art Romanza at Mulund

Participation:
2020 – Art 35, Professional Category, (Turya Group)
2020 – state Art Selection (Professional Category)
2016 – 2012 – Bombay Art society
2012 – Oak Exhibition Pune
2012 – 2006 Camlin Art Foundation
2009 – Kalabhavan thane
2008 -‘Scribble’ painting competition
2007 – Nehru Center Art Gallery [Chatak Monsoon Show]
2007- 2006 – 2005 – Pradarshak Art Gallery
2006 – Bajaj Art Gallery [Monsoon Show]
2004 – 2003 – State Art Selection