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INTRODUCTION

Paresh Hazra was born and brought up in a village Khanyadihi in West Bengal. He studied at the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, and in 1981, moved to Bengaluru. A storyteller at heart, he merely drops hints and lets art lovers find the story for themselves. Hazra experiments with textures using objects like string, fabric, and gauze. He mainly uses natural colors. Natural pigments have a longer life, he explains, and remain vibrant throughout, unlike chemical paints.
People alone have not limited his inspiration; his work is also largely influenced by folk songs, lives of simple tribal people and their folk motifs. Having worked on such subjects he looks forward to bridging these folk elements in my paintings with the contemporary. excerpt from a review by Akhila Damodarani.