Chetan Katigar

Chetan Katigar born in Hubli, Karnataka, he completed Bachelor’ in fine art in
private institute of art, Surat, 2009. Then Katigar worked as freelance artist; He
experiments in genre of Traditional Contemporary art and highly inspired by
paintings of Raja Ravi Varma. His paintings regard to Malayalam people of 17 th
century and reveal their culture and livelihood. The paintings, which depict
mythological Hindu deities, mythological characters, tribal life, sometime
European style and themes from everyday life.
He always enjoy while work, most important thing, before starting the painting
creates the predict for same “How will aspect after complete” so that achieve
expected result. As for his technique, Katigar uses bold, sweeping brushstrokes
while painting and restricted his palette to seven vibrant and earthy colours –
Indian red, yellow ochre, cadmium green, vermillion, grey, blue and white. “
Painting is not only painted canvas, it’s being filled spirit of artist “ says Chetan
katigar.