Colourful Canvas

Well known artist Samiran Boruah is one personality who has left his colourful imprints on the artistic canvas of the state. Currently working as curator in the Assam State Museum, Boruah has done extensive research on Assamese manuscripts. He received a research grant from the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, for conducting study and documentation of the Assamese manuscript paintings.

Deeply involved with the art scenario of the state, Samiran has exhibited his paintings in Guwahati, Kolkata, New Delhi, France and Germany. Incidentally, he is the only painter from Assam included in Krishna Chaitanya’s book A History of Indian Painting: The Modern Period.

His level of commitment to art can be gauged from the wide range of articles that he has written in various newspapers both in Assam and elsewhere. He has conducted workshops on Assamese masks at Festival Des Arts, Solstice 2000, Beaulieu-les-Loches, France, 2000. Other workshops include Mask at Tours, France, 2000 and lecture on Indian Artand culture at the College La Suze, Le Mans, France, 2000.

He has also delivered lectures on Indian Art and Culture at the Lycee Sainte Croix, Le Mans, France, 2000, and another on Assamese manuscript paintings at the Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU, Benaras, 2002.

Besides, he has written a book in Assamese Golapar nam aru annyanya rasana (The name of the rose and other essays) published by Book Hive, Guwahati, 1998.

Samiran Boruah’s forthcoming exhibition is on January, 2008 at the State Art Gallery, Rabindra Bhavan, Guwahati.

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