| Medium | : | Charcoal, Tempera |
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| Height | : | 12 inch / 30.5 cm |
| Width | : | 12 inch / 30.5 cm |
| Surface | : | Canvas, Rice Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 30.5 cm × H: 30.5 cm |
| Year | : | 2025 |
A poetic depiction of an unfinished home nestled within lush greenery by Subha Basu. The work captures a quiet moment of transition, where structure and nature coexist, and possibility gently takes shape.
Subha Basu | Construction in Green | Tempera, Charcoal on Rice Paper & Canvas | 12 x 12 inches | 2025
In “Construction in Green”, Subha Basu captures a moment that feels suspended between becoming and belonging. At the heart of the composition stands a skeletal structure of a house—unfinished, open, and quietly waiting. It is not yet a home, but it carries the promise of one.
Surrounded by dense, almost whispering greenery, the structure feels both embraced and challenged by nature. The trees lean in, their forms alive with layered greens, yellows, and deep shadows, as if reclaiming space even as construction begins. The sky above, washed in deep purples, adds a dreamlike stillness—suggesting time paused, perhaps at dusk, when the day’s activity fades and reflection takes over.
Basu’s use of tempera and charcoal lends the work a delicate tension. The strong, linear framework of the building contrasts with the organic, fluid strokes of the surrounding foliage. Within the structure, patches of soft color—muted pinks, pale yellows, and cool blues—hint at future rooms, future lives, and stories yet to unfold.
There is something deeply human in this pause. It speaks of transition—of spaces being built, of lives in progress, of the quiet anticipation before something begins. The house, though incomplete, feels full of possibility, standing gently within nature rather than overpowering it.
Born – 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship in 2006, M.F.A from R.B.U in 2008. Participate more than 40 Group Show in Kolkata, New Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore,Mumbai, New-york. Receive many award including AIFACS award, State academy award, Camel Art Foundation award etc. Participate many Art Camp including Jodhpur Art Camp (org. by Bodhi Tree Monastery of Art), AIFACS Camp at New Delhi, National Camp (org. by WZCC Govt. of India and Art & Culture Dept. Govt. of Goa) at Panji, Goa etc. Now I working as a freelance Artist staying at Kolkata.
ABOUT :
To him art is nothing but an application of realized truth. He think an Artist wants to frame his or her daily experience either consciously or subconsciously. In this way an Art object becomes a cultural document of time.
Generally he wants to frame my daily experiences in his work. Objective depication gives a subjective expression in his work. consciously or subconsciously the subject of his work have been collected from my surroundings. The figures of his painting are partly moulded in three dimensional form (through in most cases they are neither painted in their local colours nor is the execution method of this three dimensionality academic western style dependent), Using the ‘mode of relief ‘ style of painting. Every time he begin on painted flat surface. When he draw on that painted flat surface he used to play with them. His images go through many transformations till they got their final shape. For the sake of composition he have stretched his creative liberty to extent of arranging figures even up site down. Generally he used some bright colour on a mat surface. Which represents bright and darkness of our life.
He think my images are representative of an entire class of society where he belong.
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