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Flickr account
updated on July '09.
Recent
reference study sketches - uploaded in Flickr (May '09, updated
Jun 09).
Butterfly
Dust - poem added, May 2009
The
Foot - article on Artistic Anatomy.
(Added Mar '09)
One day...! :0)
(Added Mar '09)
Two
new sketches ...
'The Elephant Within'
(Added Jan '09)
'Warm
wings' - preliminary acrylic sketch (Dec '08)
Non-painterly
activities : Jukebox updated (Dec '08)
Oarsman
of the Night 2 - Acrylic on Canvas, 3' x 4'. (Added Nov '08)
Finished at last! - Gash
1
(Added Nov '08)
Pencil sketch ( Nov '08)
New digital painting - "I"
(Added Sep '08)
Grandma's heirloom: The
Esraj (Added Aug '08)
Work in progress: Gash
1, Oil, 18" x 24" (Added Aug '08)
(Edit: See finished work here)
New poem - "Blue
flower of peace" (Added Aug '08)
One watercolor update.
Also, refreshed two thumbnails in Gash
2 (Aug '08).
Two
new watercolors (added Jul' 08) - Golden
Ganesh
Water color - Kheya
(added Jul '08).
Another
digital sketch added (Jun '08) - Falls
Two more digital
sketches added (Jun '08)
Poetry section updated - 'The
Fanciful Flight' (Jun '08)
New Digital sketch added (Jun '08) - S.h.r.o.u.d
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Welcome to Artist on a Mend!
Section of Collateral Damage, painted
a few years back.
Please scroll down for recent oils/acrylics.
"Artist on a Mend" was painted over a period of one year. I left it unfinished, face down in the dirt and clammy moistness of a forgotten room for nearly eight months. It did not have the title by which people know it today. Meanwhile, things happened to me. To be "on a mend" could also mean "to be in a state of perpetual disrepair." Flip side of the same coin! But better be on a mend than be perfect.
For those who have visited my previous website - The more significant works from that site (like the works above) have been re-introduced in the Old Works section. I have practically closed it down , automatically redirecting the main pages to this one. As of today (May 2006) a yahoo search using my name indexes that older URL as the topmost link. If you wish to show my works to someone, and do not remember this address, simply ask them to put my name (no 'a'-s in it) through a yahoo or google search.
So, without further preamble, let me begin where I must - with an introduction to the painter. You may also read excerpts of the "older" intro at the end of this section.
I am Prosenjit Roy, a painter based in Kolkata (Calcutta for you, if you are unintiated into that secret and mysterious cult of Bengalihood! :D). Since 2000, I have withdrawn from my older profession (which involved wearing a white-coat and busily strutting/running up and down long corridors to the beck and call of pesky pagers or (more alarmingly!) laying wicked looking retractors against throbbing carotid arteries or strenuously picking out tiny shards of glass from defeated and wounded weekend pub-fighters to the more mundane task of pulling out wobbly incisors - all in the day's work of a maxillofacial resident!) and have devoted myself completely to the art of painting. I dont paint all day long, my productivity is abysmal (at least now, in may 2006, when this is being re-written), but I do 'think' about it all the time (this has become my life), and sometimes, during moments of inspiration actually come up with works of art.
This website contains a large body of my latest works, formal as well as informal which were not there in my previous website. My old paintings have been included in a seperate section as well as excerpts from related texts.
There is something else not commonly found in homepages such as these - a section on my studies on the Great Masters. We all learn from them, but often fail to acknowledge our debts. More of it in here...
While designing this site, I have replaced the customary "Home Page", with "New works" since this is where I wish my guests to be - everytime they visit artist on a mend.
The about me section is still evolving. It will mostly contain links to my contralateral reflections, a few excerpts about me from the older web gallery and whatever I may deem worthy of publication.
Please let me know if you have any queries on the paintings, or wish to comment upon those. Thank you for being here and I hope you enjoy the exhibition...
Prosenjit Roy.
>> (Scroll down
to the Thumbnails OR
Read Introductory Excerpts from the Previous Gallery)
Genesis : artist_on_a_mend ... These are excerpts, somewhat modified, from the initial pages of my first website. I wrote these during my de-coccooning years, when I was changing shells.
"Hello! This is the paintings section. And its me here, artist_on_a_mend.
Intrigued? Amused? Wondering why that of all names? Well, to be truthful, I am not too sure myself. The name simply happened. Maybe out of some deeper necessity to heal, to reform! More of that follows. But for those who would simply wish to see the paintings, lets move on to Faith, one of my older works...
Oh! So you didn't move on. Many thanks, you are equally welcome here. Perhaps a painting is better appreciated when there's a glimpse of what went behind its creation. Now about the artist_on_a_mend ...
In a previous life, dead and buried under the shifting sands of time, I was conferred a a Bachelors degree in Dental Surgery (they call it B.D.S. here) from the Calcutta University. I had had this bee in my bonnet regarding asthetics from early childhood, and perhaps inspired by my parents' (whom I will introduce shortly) profession, aspired to be a facial surgeon. Dentistry is the best way to begin that training. I began my graduate residency in Calcutta, shuttling between the plastic and maxillofacial units of a state-run hospital in the city. Later, I obtained a Fellowship to a similar unit in England under what they still, rather grandeously call 'The Royal College of Surgeons.' I travelled to Sussex in the south of that nation to continue with my training. More of it later...
Calcutta, now Kolkata, is the place of my birth. I was born in the early '70s, which were tumultous years for the politics of Bengal. My parents were surgeons. They began their career as residents in Calcutta's first Cardiothoracic unit, later shifting to General Surgery. I understand that I had a lot to look up to since childhood. Maybe, in trying to live upto some example, I forgot what the the real me was all about. I did well in studies, graduating at the top of my class, and perhaps to satisfy that deeper aesthetic craving (which I've mentioned earlier) continued to gravitate towards facial cosmetic surgery, especially for people who have had some acquired disfigurement, through trauma or malignancy. On being awarded that fellowship I went abroad to pick up some additional experience, and perhaps, staying away and alone from my loved ones for the first time in my life, in an unfamiliar environment, I had time to reflect (even while shuttling in a cab between two different hospitals about 30 mins apart during my 'on-call' days) on who I really was, and what I really wanted to do with my life. And a different realization dawned inside of me, changing my life forever...
But more of that in here...(Link takes you to excerpts in the About Me section)
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SITE UPDATES
New
Poem added in Reflections (May '08)
Another watercolor added - 'Redness'
(Apr '08)
Poetry section updated (Apr '08)
One small watercolor added - 'Birds
of Clay' (Apr '08)
New Painting - 'Gash 2'
(added Mar '08)
A quick watercolor
self-portrait in afternoon light (Jan '08).
Bouquet
of watercolors - 2
Collection of 14 watercolors from my sketch book (Dec '07)
Modified - poetry section added - 1 new (Dec '07)
New Digital painting -
"
"
(Added Nov '07)
All three videos of the Third Eye series uploaded;
Poetry section updated in About me (Nov
'07).
Sands
- digitally painted. (Added - Sep '07)
Crabgirl
- Added to the Digital
Gallery (Sep '07).
Poetry section - updated with
5 old and 1 recent (Sep '07).
'Wheels' (Pic update - Aug '07)
Acrylic on Canvas, 4' x 5'
Moonlit
watercolor sketch, 10" x 8"- (added Aug '07)
Sudden rush of afternoon sketches. (Added May/June '07)
OK, so I am on the mend again! :D Recently I broke my left ankle,
and this was my pretty plastic cast?
(Added May '07)
Oarsman of the Night
(New digital painting
Added May '07)
Bouquet of water colors
(Added Apr '07)
Surya
(New digital painting.
Added Apr '07)
Two new works added in the Digital
Gallery - Jan '07
(Written on Father's Day. Added in Reflections, Dec '06)
Three watercolors, added Nov '06)
Madhabi lata
*** You will find this and other water
color sketches here.
Poems
update - Nos 21 - 25
(added Oct - Nov '06)
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PAST UPDATES.
