Indian artist to attend Fine Art Cannes Biennale

Manama : Indian contemporary artist Satheesh Paul has been selected to participate in the second International Fine Art Cannes Biennale, which begins today. An art teacher at the Indian School, he has been participating in International Exhibitions since 2004 in New York, London, Italy, Greece, Jakarta, Bhutan, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

He has received Premeo Bertelli Award from Italy in 2012 and the prestigious Sandro Botticelli Award from Italy in 2015. Paul hails from Trivandrum, the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. His natural aptitude for painting at an early age made him create drawings on anything that came in handy from paper to wall.

He ardently studied oil painting. Later, he joined Kerala University for BFA in painting and continued his studies at Bangalore University for his MFA in Graphics. He tried his hands at experimenting in new media and came up with amazing results. His paintings are noted for its symbolism, an intellectual form of expressionism. Not content with using colour and shape to communicate his feelings, Satheesh injects his compositions with messages and esoteric references, turning his paintings into a symbolist work of art.

His artwork and creative practice extended into diverse modes, forms and mediums resulting in astonishing levels of variety and subtlety in his works. He rendered his themes to paint on canvas, crayon and graphic prints, often accompanied by poetic titles. Avoiding lavish use of color, the muted and subdued hues of Satheesh’s earlier works only add to the powerful imagery. The intensity of emotions is obviously depicted in the eyes of the figures. Satheesh Paul has a unique style. Expressed with a combination of cool and warm colors they illustrate his experiences in life. The colors in Satheesh’s paintings are at once, vibrant and subdued. With all its contemplation, his work is very powerful and intense. His symbolic compositions are mostly figurative and abstract.