Dharmesh Yadav

He is a self taught artist. He paints mainly in oils. Portraiture art is something he loves to do because faces fascinate him, the myriad of expressions, the persona, the emotions, the joy that glimpses through the eyes, the creases on the faces reflecting the lives lived make for compelling subjects.

He took early retirement from his job at Central Government, M.H.A. in pursuit of things not so mundane, to appreciate the beauty of the world around us and also venture into the realms beyond the physical matter. Although, he intends to traverse the spiritual path, in his paintings, he tries to bring the mundane objects of everyday life, of people's faces, and animals too, to the level of realism which we otherwise fail to notice or just pass by them. Well, there has always been a debate about the need for the realism art after the advent of photography but nevertheless, the appeal that lies in the marks made by the brushstrokes, the colour and the vividness that is brought by the oil paints, giving almost a surreal experience at times is unmatched by a photograph. He wants to bring all this and more through his paintings.