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Samarjit Roy Chowdhury’s childhood memories of the simple joys, harmonic patterns, and cadence of rural life, occupy a central place in his painterly vision. The artist’s simplified and nearly abstract language plays on a romantic vision of geometricized, angular images of kites, birds, and buntings, as well as motifs from clay dolls, lokhhi shora, pata-chitra, and other vernacular crafts. Chowdhury graduated of the Government Art Institute, where his artistic skill was honed by Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan, Anwarul Huq, Mohammed Kibria and Safiuddin Ahmed. He taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, for 43 years. Samarjit Roy Chowdhury received the Ekushey Padak in 2014, among other honours. |