Swaraj Das
Some moments stay as atmospheres - a city after rain, a morning unfolding, a sky mid-change. In watercolour and acrylic, I follow those moods as they blur, merge, and breathe. Nothing is fixed. Everything is felt. The work becomes a quiet search for clarity inside fluidity, for poetry inside everyday life.
Swaraj Das
Contemporary Artist
About Artist
Swaraj Das paints with the spirit of a poet — distilling life, light, and longing into fluid abstraction. The shifting moods of a city after rain. A village waking up to filtered sunlight. The quiet mystery of changing skies. Swaraj Das captures these moments in flux — not to document them, but to distill the essence of life and nature through his meditative brushwork. Born in 1983 in Kolkata, S...Read More
The shifting moods of a city after rain. A village waking up to filtered sunlight. The quiet mystery of changing skies. Swaraj Das captures these moments in flux — not to document them, but to distill the essence of life and nature through his meditative brushwork. Born in 1983 in Kolkata, Swaraj works primarily with transparent watercolour, acrylic, and oil on canvas and paper, exploring themes that lie somewhere between the seen and the intuited.
His paintings don’t aim for realism; they breathe. Shapes melt and merge, colours bleed into each other, and forms emerge — only to dissolve again — like memories that refuse to stay still. There’s rhythm in his abstraction, and deliberate choreography in the chaos. Cities and villages, their people and seasons, flicker across his canvases as flickers of internal weather. His language is one of suggestion: overlapping tones, unexpected silences, soft luminosity, and atmospheric depth.
For Swaraj, making art is a search — for peace within noise, clarity within blur, structure within fluidity. It is through this search that his paintings become quiet meditations. He consumes life fully — its joy, unpredictability, stillness — and returns it as visual poetry. Every work is a trace of lived experience, reorganised through colour, mood and memory.
A Dreamlike Dance of Water Lilies
Swaraj Das
Oil on Linen Canvas
74 (w) x 38 (h) in
$ 12,205
Dance of Reflections
Swaraj Das
Oil on Linen Canvas
62 (w) x 39 (h) in
$ 10,495
Water Lilies in Dream
Swaraj Das
Oil on Linen Canvas
27 (w) x 19 (h) in
$ 2,226
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Whispers of the Pond
Swaraj Das
Oil on Linen Canvas
27 (w) x 19 (h) in
$ 2,227
Mystic Lily Dreams
Swaraj Das
Oil on Canvas
48 (w) x 31.5 (h) in
$ 6,563
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Highlights And Achievements
Artist Education
B.V.A from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta University.
Artist Awards & Recognition
2014: International Award - Juried Exhibition, Louisiana Watercolor Society, USA.
2013: Achievement Award - International Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA.
2012 President's Award - 33rd International Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA.
2012 1st Place Award for Best Watercolor Painting - Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA
2002: Ravi Jain Memorial Scholarship, Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
Artist Collections
Works held in gallery and private collections in Delhi, Mumbai, France, Amsterdam, the United Kingdom (UK), and private collections worldwide.
Group Shows
2022 – Singapore Affordable Art Fair
2022 – South Korea, Busan Art Exhibition
2022 – Miami, Art Expo New York
2022 – New York, Art Expo Exhibition
2022 – Sydney Exhibition with The Other Art Fair
2022 – Germany, Frankfurt, Discovery Art Exhibition
2022, 2021 – Switzerland, MAP Montreux Art Exhibition
2019 – Senlis Art Festival, Paris, France
2019 – Helsinki, Wanna Satma Exhibition Hall, Tatanis Art Fair
2019 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA
2018 – Singapore Affordable Art Fair
2018 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA
2018 – Dadun Fine Art Exhibition, Taiwan
2016 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA
2015 – Dadun Fine Art Exhibition, Taiwan
2015 – San Diego Watercolor Society, Garden Gallery, USA
2015 – The Dan Art Gallery, Taiwan
2014 – Houston Watercolor Society, USA
2013 – Louisiana Watercolor Society, USA
2013 – Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2012 – 33rd International Juried Exhibition, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, USA
2012 – Pennsylvania Watercolor Society’s State Museum, USA
2012 – Alternative Art Gallery, Gorgon
2010 – Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 – Sridharani & Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2010, 2008, 2007 – India Habitat Centre (Open Palm Court), New Delhi
2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002 – Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2006 – “Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow”, Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
2006 – 68th & 69th All India Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, Kolkata
2006–2005 – Annual Exhibition, Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
2006, 2005 – W.B.S.A Exhibition, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 – Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata
2007 – Camlin Art Foundation, New Delhi
2003 – A.I.F.A.C.S Regional Art Exhibition, New Delhi
2001–2006 – Annual Exhibition, Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
Solo Shows
2022 – Indian Art Festival, Thyagaraj Stadium, INA Colony, New Delhi, India
2019 – Indian Art Festival, Thyagaraj Stadium, INA Colony, New Delhi, India
2019 – Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2018 – Indian Art Festival, Thyagaraj Stadium, INA Colony, New Delhi, India
2018 – India Habitat Centre (Convention Foyer), New Delhi
2015 – Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2014 – Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai
2014 – India Habitat Centre (Open Palm Court), New Delhi
2013 – India Habitat Centre (Convention Foyer), New Delhi
2013 – Association with Hotel Galaxy Shopping & Spa, Gurgaon
2008 – Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2007 – India Habitat Centre (Open Palm Court), New Delhi
2006 – Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
Sold Artworks
Enchanted Pond of Water Lilies
Swaraj Das
Oil on 100% Acid free Reg paper
.SOLD
Blossoms on the Blue
Swaraj Das
Oil on Canvas
.SOLD
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