Gallery Silver Scpaes
Untitled
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Artist: Suhas Roy
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Size: 12 × 16.5 inches (30.48 × 41.91 cm)
Marked by quiet elegance and painterly restraint, Suhas Roy’s Untitled still life reveals the artist’s deep sensitivity to form, atmosphere, and the evocative power of everyday objects. Executed in mixed media on paper, the work exemplifies Roy’s ability to transform a simple tabletop arrangement into a contemplative visual experience, rich in texture, tone, and emotional resonance.
The composition centers on a translucent glass tumbler filled with a luminous reddish-pink liquid, placed with precision upon a stark white plate. This focal ensemble, though modest in subject, is rendered with exquisite care and spatial awareness. Beside it, two red apples rest on a light beige tablecloth or napkin, their rounded forms delicately overlapping the plate. The apples, with their rich surface color and soft sheen, introduce organic volume and warmth into the otherwise cool, restrained setting. The background is composed of deep tonal gradations, dark teal, forest green, and shadowed brown, applied in a manner that intentionally blurs the spatial boundary, evoking a hushed, shadowy ambiance. These darker hues contrast gently with the highlighted foreground, creating a subtle but compelling chiaroscuro effect. Rather than opt for sharp detail, Roy uses a softened, almost atmospheric approach to evoke depth and suggestion, emphasizing the poetic potential of stillness and form.
The visible brushwork in the rendering of the plate and tablecloth hints at an impasto-like treatment, with thickly applied paint that enhances the textural surface of the image. This gestural application imparts a tactile immediacy, inviting close inspection and allowing the viewer to experience the act of painting as much as the painted image itself. The soft, diffuse light that suffuses the entire scene further contributes to the subdued, contemplative mood, casting gentle shadows and illuminating forms with quiet dignity.
Suhas Roy’s still life is not a literal representation of objects, but rather an intimate meditation on balance, solitude, and the beauty found in simplicity. The artist’s use of mixed media enables a dialogue between delicacy and density, translucence and opacity, emotion and materiality. In this Untitled work, Roy transcends the conventions of still life to create a subtle, almost lyrical statement on presence, perception, and the refined art of looking.
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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.