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Artist: Madhav Satwalekar
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 12 × 12 inches (30.48 × 30.48 cm)
Madhav Satwalekar’s Nocturnal Landscape is a quietly evocative gouache-on-board painting that captures the introspective mood of a solitary night. Rendered in muted earth tones and suffused with a soft, hazy texture, the work reveals a poetic interplay between light and darkness, evoking a scene that feels both grounded and dreamlike.
At the heart of the composition stands a modest, rustic building with a low-pitched roof, its presence unassuming yet anchoring the scene. Nestled among dark, blurred silhouettes of trees or dense shrubs, the structure suggests a retreat into solitude, perhaps a shelter, perhaps a memory. The surrounding foliage is not described in detail but instead absorbed into the inky depths of the night, enhancing the sense of stillness and quiet that permeates the landscape.
A lone lamp post stands nearby, casting a pale, diffused light that gently reveals the edges of the building and the terrain. Its glow does not pierce the darkness but softens it, making the surrounding shadows feel deeper, more mysterious. Just within its reach, a solitary figure appears near a small campfire. The figure is minimally rendered, emphasizing the atmosphere rather than narrative detail, yet the positioning, upright and observant, adds a layer of human presence to the scene’s otherwise hushed ambience.
The campfire itself introduces the only vivid note in the palette. Its subdued orange flicker breathes life into the composition, sending tendrils of smoke upward that dissipate into the hazy night sky. This single warm element becomes the visual and emotional fulcrum of the painting, balancing the chill of nocturnal solitude with a quiet pulse of warmth and introspection. The ground, light brownish-gold in tone, reflects the faint illumination from both lamp and fire, textured with layered shadows that ripple out from trees and figure alike. The artist’s use of gouache lends the work a tactile, velvety softness, enhancing the atmospheric depth and allowing subtle transitions between form and space.
Satwalekar’s approach resists overt drama, favoring a subdued lyricism rooted in observation and mood. Nocturnal Landscape does not aim to tell a story in a conventional sense, but rather invites the viewer into a contemplative moment suspended in time. It is a study in solitude, in light as quiet presence, and in the understated beauty of night as a space of reflection.
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Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.