Swaraj Das paints with the spirit of a poet — distilling life, light, and longing into fluid abstraction. The shifting moods of a city after rain. A village waking up to filtered sunlight. The quiet mystery of changing skies. Swaraj Das captures these moments in flux — not to document them, but to distill the essence of life and nature through his meditative brushwork. Born in 1983 in Kolkata, S...
Swaraj Das paints with the spirit of a poet — distilling life, light, and longing into fluid abstraction.
The shifting moods of a city after rain. A village waking up to filtered sunlight. The quiet mystery of changing skies. Swaraj Das captures these moments in flux — not to document them, but to distill the essence of life and nature through his meditative brushwork. Born in 1983 in Kolkata, Swaraj works primarily with transparent watercolour, acrylic, and oil on canvas and paper, exploring themes that lie somewhere between the seen and the intuited.
His paintings don’t aim for realism; they breathe. Shapes melt and merge, colours bleed into each other, and forms emerge — only to dissolve again — like memories that refuse to stay still. There’s rhythm in his abstraction, and deliberate choreography in the chaos. Cities and villages, their people and seasons, flicker across his canvases as flickers of internal weather. His language is one of suggestion: overlapping tones, unexpected silences, soft luminosity, and atmospheric depth.
For Swaraj, making art is a search — for peace within noise, clarity within blur, structure within fluidity. It is through this search that his paintings become quiet meditations. He consumes life fully — its joy, unpredictability, stillness — and returns it as visual poetry. Every work is a trace of lived experience, reorganised through colour, mood and memory.
The shifting moods of a city after rain. A village waking up to filtered sunlight. The quiet mystery of changing skies. Swaraj Das captures these moments in flux — not to document them, but to distill the essence of life and nature through his meditative brushwork. Born in 1983 in Kolkata, Swaraj works primarily with transparent watercolour, acrylic, and oil on canvas and paper, exploring themes that lie somewhere between the seen and the intuited.
His paintings don’t aim for realism; they breathe. Shapes melt and merge, colours bleed into each other, and forms emerge — only to dissolve again — like memories that refuse to stay still. There’s rhythm in his abstraction, and deliberate choreography in the chaos. Cities and villages, their people and seasons, flicker across his canvases as flickers of internal weather. His language is one of suggestion: overlapping tones, unexpected silences, soft luminosity, and atmospheric depth.
For Swaraj, making art is a search — for peace within noise, clarity within blur, structure within fluidity. It is through this search that his paintings become quiet meditations. He consumes life fully — its joy, unpredictability, stillness — and returns it as visual poetry. Every work is a trace of lived experience, reorganised through colour, mood and memory.
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