Dhiren Sasmal is a meditative painter, amazingly skilful in his linear execution. What seduces the viewer is the way he transforms his dexterous formal structure into an innocent and ethereal world of fantasy-oriented beauty. He is a master in the use of colour and form, often disintegrating forms, makes them geometrical and then breaking them. Yet this scattering within the pictorial space remains integrated in a totality of formal structure. This is the mastery of the artist.

Dhiren Sasmal is an artist who sees the world through the eyes of children….whose reality is rooted in a magical universe of myth and fantasy. He considers this innocence to be the primary condition of any creativity. Sasmal applies his decades of experience in visual art and diverse mediums, to reinvent old beloved themes….. young girls in plaits playing in a garden, children absorbed in a world of simple pleasures, mermaids and fairies, owls with attitude, world-weary fish.

The genius of this artist lies not only in his skill in linear execution and mastery over his media, but also in his transforming of a complex formal structure into a jubilant world of fantasy-oriented beauty. The viewer too frees his imagination unrestricted by the mores of reality.