Indian Steam Locomotives out of Museum

“For years, I woke up at midnight and started painting impromptu. I still find that

very gratifying.” - Meet Kishore Pratim Biswas, India’s upcoming contemporary

artist.


Kishore’s 15-year journey in modern contemporary art movement has not only

strengthened his unconventional thought process, but architected his painting

style too.


Kishore was born in a place where he had a opportunity to watch the Steam

Locomotives. Throughout the day the steam locomotives were running in front

of him with the whistling and steaming. For him it's a big nostalgia.

The ambiance was like that the locomotives had a giant appearance of the black

body with the white steam around him. It was a dramatic visual experience which

was making crazy to Kishore. Which was encouraging to kishore bring down the

memory on canvas. Kishore used to go to the locomotive workshop day after day

to study that from a close view. He seriously had fallen in love to the steam

locomotives. He did watercolor and oil sketch mostly in sepia tone.

In the locomotive workshop the firemen and drivers were to be good friend of

Kishore. They always came to him to take a look their picture on the sketch book.

Few of them were also sitting with him for making their own portrait. Kishore

remembered that, all time their looked very black and dark because of the dust of

coal. Their faces always had a interesting sprite of life, which always inspired him

to draw their portrait. They never had any complain about their hard life. He loved

to sketch them, study their faces with pen and ink, charcoal, soft pastel and

pencil. They wore always in a particular dress of dark blue with a cap. Kishore

tried to catch their emotions in the character. Watching their lifestyles, listening

their stories... still today Kishore is working on their life with the locomotives...

That is how the "Nostalgia of steam locomotives" came.


Born in Kolkata, 42 year-old Kishore was passionate about art since childhood.

After graduating in Fine Arts from Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata,

1996. Kishore spent some struggling years in his hometown and then moved to

Mumbai in 2009.

Today Kishore has his own studio in Mumbai. Kishore started by primarily

painting in water colors. But his talent knew no bounds. Gradually, he switched to

painting Acrylic on canvas. Today, he stands on a solid intellectual platform and

his work reflects a unique streak, where color is of great importance, and form

happens to be only incidental. He uses the texture in the canvas as well as

experimental methods to add the finishing touch to his meticulous paintings.

Kishore is also an expert in acrylic, oil, watercolor, mix media, charcoal, and

soft pastels.


Kishore organized his solo exhibition in Kolkata in 1996. In 1997, he displayed

his work of art at several group shows around the country and UAE. Even though

Kishore has a long way to go, his paintings are slowly making their way into

the homes of collectors of modern Indian art.

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