GANESH PYNE (B. 1937)

Ganesh Pyne is known for his meticulous draughtsmanship and delicate handling of pigment. Influenced by the Tagore brothers, Pyne's work fuses the French Modernism favoured by the Tagores with the whimsicality of cartoons as he spent a portion of the 1960s sketching for animated films. Pyne began using tempera as his primary medium in the mid-1960s and his longstanding experiments with indigenous powder pigments and various binding agents has allowed him to develop a unique way of building up surface and texture on canvas. The brooding dreamscapes populated with groundless floating bodies are intimations of beauty, decay and impermanence.