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About Swaraj Das
"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, 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."
Academics
B.V.A from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta University.
Awards and 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, USA2002: Ravi Jain Memorial Scholarship, Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata
Collections
Works held in gallery and private collections in Delhi, Mumbai, France, Amsterdam, the United Kingdom (UK), and private collections worldwide.
