Feroz Khan is an artist who paints not just what he sees on the streets of Delhi, but what those streets feel like from the inside out. His practice grows out of a self-taught journey—learning first beside his father, a banner painter, and later under the guidance of Manjit Bawa and is driven by a quiet conviction that the everyday life of ordinary people is worthy of being held at the centre of a...
Feroz Khan is an artist who paints not just what he sees on the streets of Delhi, but what those streets feel like from the inside out. His practice grows out of a self-taught journey—learning first beside his father, a banner painter, and later under the guidance of Manjit Bawa and is driven by a quiet conviction that the everyday life of ordinary people is worthy of being held at the centre of art. His figures tailors, cart pullers, vendors, workers do not appear as background characters, they stand with an unspoken poise, claiming space without spectacle or drama. No longer anonymous silhouettes in a crowd, they become portraits of resilience and routine, marked by strong drawing, assured brushwork, and surfaces that carry the dust, weight, and stillness of the city. Instead of ornament, his details feel like traces of labour and time: creases in a shirt, the curve of a worn hand, the tension in a resting posture. In this understated world, Khan’s art is radical in its tenderness the people simply exist with calm dignity, asking the viewer to look longer, and to recognise the grace embedded in lives that usually pass unnoticed.
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