Biography
Artist Sujan Biswas has made the world of Nature the leitmotif of his art creations. In his works one can almost breathe the freshness of trees, their close relationship with the people who inhabit his canvas, not as individuals but as a part of the arboreal world around them. In fact, the trees in his works loose much of their individual identity and become embodied as the limbs and body parts of the human world. In consequence, the interdependence between man and nature is writ in explicit terms in all of Sujan Biswas’ works. Through the masterly strokes of his brush, the fine lines of pen and ink details and a colour palette that weaves meaning through various tints and shades, this skilful artist has driven home the urgent message that the wanton destruction of trees and their lack of upkeep is the way to environmental degradation, and the celebration of creativity can be verbalized through such poignant messages on canvas.
Not all his inspirations are rooted ideas for in works such as ‘Flying Tree’, the composition exudes freedom arising from within the artist. The floating tree forms are a manifestation of a journey towards a global outlook, taking the message of amalgamation between the end points of tree and man to a heightened level of sensitivity. In an intricate play of sinuous lines on a wash of blues and greys, the twisting of sinew and bark depicts the message of concern, dedication and hope, that are but staging posts in man’s quest to save the environment. The fine lines outlining detached tree forms and blurred bird forms create an aura of mysticism, for surely nature is not all a story of concern for its safety; it is also the magical liberty of the artist to evoke images from memory and distant dreams that lie dormant in the sub-conscious.
Since the early beginnings when a tree was nothing more than a physical form for him, today, Sujan Biswas, holding his … solo exhibition, has widened his art concerns, embracing social imperatives, universal messages and personal revelations about Man and his links with nature’s most representative form, the Tree.
