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Vasant
Chinchwadkar is a freelance professional artist who has spent half of his time
in his home town in India and half in Essex in the UK. He has stayed at
Jacobs Farm, Goldhanger Rd., Heybridge in the summer months from the 1970s
onwards and has returned to his home town Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India each
autumn. In the 1990s on,
while staying at Jacobs Farm, Vasant submitted many of his work in the
Goldhanger Art Society Autumn shows and became a regular visitor to the
shows, spending time discussing techniques with other local artists. In this
period he was also a regular visiting lecturer and gave demonstrations of his
skills at the Further Education College at the Friary in Maldon. Vasant was born
in Indore in 1934, the son of a lawyer, and was educated there. His mother
was an artist. He trained at the Indore School of Art and gained a First
Class Diploma in Fine Arts from Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy School of Art
(affiliated to University of Mumbai, then known as Bombay). Vasant first
exhibited with the Spectrome group of artists in Bombay and Delhi and then
many other locations in Central India. His first one-man exhibition was held
in Dehli in 1963. He came to England in 1968 "to seek a fortune in
art". Vasant met up
with Essex sculptor John Doubleday in India 2010 while John was studying
Indian metal working techniques and an online video of their meeting is
available at the end of this page. They have since worked together in Essex
and given several local talks. His work has been
widely shown in exhibitions in both India and in the UK. Today his work is in
private and public collections all around the world including: Canada,
U.S.A., Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan. Some are
known to be in the Trinity College, Oxford art collection. |
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Examples
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more
examples of Vasant’s work are available here... all of these paintings
by Vasant were found on various art gallery websites in 2023 and there are also 30 of his works
on his Facebook page at... |
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Past exhibitions
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one person shows, some were group shows |
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1960s
Water House Gallery, London - each
year until 1972 1970 Galleria Moldon 1970 Trinity College, Cambridge 1971 Wiverhoe Art Club 1972 Dusseldorf Galleria 1973 Project 8 Gallery, Colchester 1974
"Critics' Choice', Wivenhoe Art Club 1975 Halworth, Suffolk 1976 West Gate House. Long Melford, Essex 1977 Braintree District Arts Council |
1979 Little Baddow Hall Arts Centre 1979 Sea Dog Gallery, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex 1981 Ingastone Art Gallery 1981 I.A.U.K, Art Centre 1982 Between Two Cultures, Barbican, London 1982 William Morris Art Gallery 1986 “Artists in Essex” Waltham Abbey Museum 1988 Chappel Galleries, Essex 1990s
Goldhanger art shows 1990 “Artists in Essex”, Waltham Abbey Museum |
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Sculpture |
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Exhibition posters |
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Magazine illastrations |
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Videos that include Vasant |
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The 1st National Art Camp at Indore in
2008... “London based Indian artist Mr. Vasant
Chinchwadkar is seen the making of charcoal drawing”... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3sGmMC4Tzo |
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Vasant interviewing John Doubleday at
Indore in 2010... |
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Vasant as the guest speech at Indore in 2016... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoiRBRhRYwc |
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Vasant presenting awards to young artists
at Indore in 2016... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5adG7vdWx0 |
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Extracts from the web relating to Vasant |
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from...
https://smartify.org/artists/vasant-narayan-chinchwadkar Vasant Narayan Chinchwadkar
is a painter and collagist artistically educated in Indore, Madhya Pradesh,
India. Trained at Indore School of Art (affiliated to University of
Mumbai/Bombay), he then gained a first class Diploma in Fine Arts from Sir
Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy School of Art, Mumbai. Chinchwadkar came to England in
1968 "to seek a fortune in art" and subsequently worked as a
freelance painter. |
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Painter and
collagist born Vasant Narayan Chinchwadkar and artistically educated in
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has shown widely in India and in London at
the Horizon Gallery as well as in the provinces. In 1997 he held a two-person
exhibition "A World of Difference", with Ingrid Pollard at the
Epping Forest District Museum. He
exhibited in England in 2001 at Chelmsford Museum and Art Gallery
Essex. His work is in the collection of Trinity College, Oxford. |
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from... https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/5490570.chelmsford-heybridge-indian-images-for-art/ 2001 - Artist
Vasant Chinchwadkar, who draws much of his inspiration from Indian mythical
images, has launched an exhibition of his work at the Chelmsford Museum in
Oaklands Park in Moulsham Street, Chelmsford. Vasant, who has lived in
Heybridge for more than 20 years, has been successfully exhibiting since
1963. He has work in private collections across the world. A total of 35
pieces, including vibrant oil paintings, watercolours, pencil and charcoal
drawings are on show. |
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2011 - A standout
feature of this event is a talk by internationally-renowned artists Vasant
Chinchwadkar and John Doubleday, entitled Tribal Art of India, which starts
at 6.30pm at Goat Lodge Farm, Goat Lodge Road, Great Totham. The one-hour
talk, which will include an insight into indigenous bronze casting, as well
as the deities, laws and practices relating to Indian painting and crafts. |
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from...
https://www.artprice.com/marketplace/2317984/vasant-narayan-chinchwadkar/print-multiple/three-horses Vasant
Chinchwadkar, who goes by the name of Vasant, was born in India in 1934 and
was the son of a lawyer. He first studied painting at the School of Art at
Indore and later at the Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy School of Art in
Mumbai/Bombay, where, in 1962 he gained a first class diploma in Fine Arts.
Vasant exhibited with the Spectrome group of artists in Bombay, Delhi and
many other places in Central India. His
first one man exhibition was held in Dehli in 1963. Since this time he has
had several one-man exhibitions and his work can be found in private
collections throughout India and the
United Stated. Inspired by the
ancient culture of India, Vasant's work retains a freshness which is totally
pure and sincere, simple at first sight, yet full of the excitement of a
detailed drawing. Vasant transfers this skill and the use of colour, making
each original a living statement of the rich Indian cultural heritage. |
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from...
https://www.johndoubleday.co.uk/india John Doubleday in
India 2010/2011 - The experience had a profound impact on John personally, on
his work and on the artist’s personal response, as an outsider, to the
experience of India; an experience encouraged by his son who had worked in
Indore. |
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Photo Portraits of Vasant |
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DWN
2024 |
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