A Maity good time at the Rashtrapati Bhavan

Waking up to dancing peacocks below his balcony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, artist-in-residence Paresh Maity tells Brunch how he painted a new paradigm.

A Sixties child, growing up in Tamluk, a suburban town near the Bay of Bengal, Paresh Maity sat on the waterfront for hours, looking at clouds and marvelling at the sky changing hues. “During my childhood, I was fortunate to be surrounded by the resplendent colours of nature. Over the years, nature became one of my biggest inspirations,” says Maity.

(Ravi Choudhary)

Paresh Maity paints at the makeshift studio he created in Rashtrapati Bhavan as the artist-in-residence

Paresh Maity and his wife Jayasri Burman converse with President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan’s cultural centre