Ishita Banerjee

Working from her studio in Montreal, Canada, Ishita is a modern Cubist artist and abstract expressionist. Ishita’s art is an assimilation of her life experiences, largely influenced by her relationship to impatience and impulsivity. Merging imagination and memory to create vivid and bold abstracts, people, faces and non-traditional portraiture, rendered in strong color, motifs and details. Working with a variety of mediums like acrylics, inks, watercolors, pen and digital, she paints and draws intuitively, adding, mixing, editing, and layering color upon color that drive the process forward. The resulting works are emotive, tactile, and experiential. Human interactions, emotions, moods, and feelings inspire her work. She loves abstracting these feelings and associations. Depicting people and nature in their tempestuous forms plays a big role in her work. Actively seeking out gnarled, broken, rocky, cyclic, layered, and grungy aspects of nature, she tries to find the beauty in the bizarre, the unexplained. Through her art, she strives to give tangible forms to complex emotions like grief, longing, loss, love, suffering. The interplay of human relationships, whether with one’s own self or with others is a recurrent theme in the pieces she makes. Threading lines, textures and markings in her work tell the story of the passage of time, the inter-connections of forms, both tangible and abstract. She is deeply inspired by the Cubist style of art, unconstrained, outside the lines, breaking free of traditional rules of perspectives, and the role of interpretational abstracts that are as transient as human feelings. Outside of her daily art practice, she is a community builder. She believes in art education, art transcending borders and art as a universal language