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From my early ages, I have been fascinated by real life images in all paintings, be it a portrait, Landscape or Still life. I have been seriously painting since last few years.

My work is usually in oil on canvas . I have also done Water Colors. I like to sketch with pencil or charcoal.

Photography, making miniature models of houses, doll-collecting and wildlife are my other passions.

With no formal academic learning from any art school , my natural talent with colors made me to attempt reproduction work of great masters of 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. I derived immense inspirations from the work of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Johannes Vermeer, Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, Michelangelo Merisi-da Caravaggio, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn to name a few.

Few of my favorite art movements are:

Baroque: In the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the turn of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. Baroque-era conceptions of monarchy, iconography, handling of paint, and compositions as well as the depiction of space and movement. The intensity and immediacy of baroque art and its individualism and detail observed in such things as the convincing rendering of cloth and skin textures make it one of the most compelling periods of Western art.

Academic Classicism: Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Academie des beaux-arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of their styles The art influenced by academies and universities in general is also called "academic art". In this context as new styles are embraced by academics, the new styles come to be considered academic, thus what was at one time a rebellion against academic art becomes academic

Orientalism: Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures by Westerners. It can also refer to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists. In the former meaning the term is becoming obsolete, increasingly being used only to refer to the study of the East during the historical period of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Because of this, the term Orientalism has come to acquire negative connotations in some quarters, implying old-fashioned and prejudiced interpretations of Eastern cultures and peoples.