Few painters can possibly claim and possess a talent so apparent that they can capture life and its challenges with instinctive ability. Sudhir Patwardhan can bring to his oeuvre a quality that makes him stand out and capture life and its challenges with a surgical eye.
The brush, palette, scalpel and what have you come together to question, mull over, mediate and comment upon themes like loneliness, despondency and old age in a fast-changing country, where living life is the biggest challenge often. Ruminative, possibly even melancholic, the works are, however, tinged somewhere with a sliver of hope to be able to cast off the inertia and take life on.
