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Artist
Ganesh Haloi


A sense of nostalgia for a lost world pervades much of Ganesh Haloi's work. He was born in Jamalpur, now in Bangladesh in 1936 and moved to Calcutta in 1950 following the Partition. The trauma of the uprooting left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. A sense of nostalgia for a lost world pervades much of his work. He graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, in 1956 and joined the Archaeological Survey of India to make copies of the Ajanta murals. After seven years, Haloi returned to Calcutta to work. The experience of Ajanta influenced Haloi profoundly and his works show an innate lyricism. Haloi works with several mediums. He initially painted figures and gradually shifted focus to abstract renderings of landscapes. Haloi has also one done some architectural paintings following a tour of the ruins of Gour Pandua in north Bengal and done a number of commissioned mosaic murals. His works can be seen at the Lalit Kala Academy and National Gallery for Modern Art in New Delhi, and Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai. He lives and works in Calcutta.