Ishita Banjeree

Artist, dreamer, abstract and color addict, Ishita trained as a classical, fine artist, with a Bachelors in Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Applied Arts and an Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in Communication Design. Her art is an assimilation of her life experiences, merging imagination and memory to create vivid and bold abstracts, people, faces and non traditional portraiture, rendered in strong color, motifs and details.

Working in the mixed media techniques, Ishita use acrylics, inks, watercolor, pens, markers as well as digital textures and paintings. Straddling surfaces of paper, canvas, illustration boards and drawing on the iPad with an Apple pencil, she likes to blend traditional methods of drawing with digital paintings. 

Human interactions, emotions, moods, and feelings inspire her work. She loves abstracting these feelings and associations. Depicting people and nature in their tempestuous forms, plays a big role in her work. Actively seeking out gnarled, broken, rocky, cyclic, layered, and grungy aspects of nature, Ishita tries to find the beauty in the bizarre, the unexplained.

Through her art, Ishita strives to give tangible forms to complex emotions like grief, longing, loss, love, suffering. The interplay of human relationships, whether with one’s own self or with others is a recurrent theme in the pieces she makes. Threading lines, textures and markings in my work tell the story of the passage of time, the inter-connections of forms, both tangible and abstract.

Ishita is deeply inspired by the Cubist style of art, unconstrained, outside the lines, breaking free of traditional rules, and the role of interpretational abstracts that are as transient as our feelings.