Born in Bengal,artist Sekhar Roy, studied at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata. He has been a part of many art camps and art shows across India over the years and has received many awards for his works. Roy's creations can be viewed from the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, to the French Consulate in Mumbai and his works also lie in the personal collections of great artists such as M.F. Hussain.
Sekhar Roy plays with a world of fantasy that bridges reality. Whilst human figures are prominent part of many of his works, they have a dream-like, almost other worldly feel to them. Roy tries to depict the state of the human condition through his figures, there hollow eyes suggestive of emptiness, whilst the fabric-like texture in their form, (his signature style), indicates the individual who is cocooned in his own life, isolated and removed from the rest of world, restrained even in his private relationships. His figures thus come across as mesmerizing and intense. He works with oil, watercolors and acrylic, though of late has also branched out to work with wood.
He lives in Kolkata.
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