About
Amita Sen Gupta is all about evanescence and "slipping of the surly bonds of earth."
She escapes gravity and leaves the terrestrial realm to enter higher, freer, more luminous planes of existence. Her clouds and ravishing colours herald the splendour and glories of unfettered nature, sans the clumsy histrionics of clay-footed humans. People, animals and things are of no lasting consequence - just limitless vistas of clouds and light, always morphing, never heavy or ponderous.
The real adventure is above and beyond.
-Betty Ann Jordan
Clouds and Skies is my recent series of dream-landscapes of light that allows for a play of perception from the pictorial to the interpretive. Through layers of thinned paint I translate a felt inner energy into rhythmic brush strokes. Which creates contour movement and exposed space through their transparency. My paintings enable a look at a space never explored, and a chance to go deeper into one’s self. For me, in looking outward, you are actually looking inward.
Amita Sen Gupta is a painter working and living in Toronto. She studied Fine Art at OCAD University, and received a scholarship during her final year in Florence, Italy. Her paintings exhibited throughout Ontario, including The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Gladstone Hotel, Mercedes Benz Financial, and Art Rental + Sales Gallery at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Sen Gupta has also been part of art collectives in Toronto, and was a founding member of the artist-run gallery, Propeller. She served as an art consultant at the Art Rental and Sales Gallery at the Art Gallery of Ontario and was chosen to be a contestant in “Landscape Artist Of The Year Canada” which aired on Makeful TV in 2020.