About Visual Artist Sachin Upadhye

Work experience in the art field:

PARTICIPATED IN PAINTING WORKSHOPS AT BELGAUM ORGANISED BY –

• SAPTRANGA ART SOCIETY – 1994 & 1995
• BEYNON SMITH SCHOOL OF ART – BGM - 1995
• KANNADA SAHITYA & CULTURAL SOCIETY - 1996 & 1997
• ONE MAN SHOW IN 2003 IN MILLENNIUM GARDENS – BELGAUM
• ONE MAN SHOW IN JUNE 2008 – ART2DAY GALLERY-PUNE.
• GROUP SHOW IN NOV 2009 – BALGANDHARVA KALADALAN – PUNE
• GROUP SHOW IN JAN 2010 – VANGHMAYA CHARCHA MANDAL – BELGAUM
• ONE MAN SHOW IN APRIL 2010 – ORCHIDS ART GALLERY - MANGALORE
• GROUP SHOW IN SEPT 2010, & NOV 2010 – EPICENTRE ART GALLERY –GURGAON.
• GROUP SHOW 13th Nov 2011- At IREO gallery - Gurgaon organized by IREO & Finesse art.
• GROUP SHOW - 21st – 24th Nov 2011 – at Chitrakala parishath, Bangalore
• GROUP SHOW - JUNE 2012 - Coomaraswamy Hall, Museum campus, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
• GROUP SHOW - 11-17th Oct 2013 - Karnataka Chitrakala parishath - Bangalore.
• ART WORKSHOP AND GROUP SHOW - Jaipur Art Festival at DIGGI PALACE JAIPUR - Mar 2014
• GROUP SHOW - 13-16TH OCT 2018 - ROYAL ENFIELD SHOWROOM, BELGAUM
• GROUP SHOW - JAN 2019 - MAHAVEER ART GALLERY, BELGAUM
• GROUP SHOW – SEPT 2019 - ART FOR CHARITY IN BELGAUM
• GROUP SHOW – OCT 2021 – KBK ART GALLERY – BELGAUM.
• GROUP SHOW – FEB 2022 – CAFÉ HAND TO MOUTH – BELGAUM
• GROUP SHOW – APR 2022 – KBK ART GALLERY – BELGAUM  
• GROUP SHOW – OCT 2022 – KBK ART GALLERY – BELGAUM

About the artist:

Sachin Upadhye did his academics in mechanical engineering. His profession is that of manufacturing the canvas required by painters. His company 'Mona Lisa Fine Art Products' is the only canvas manufacturing unit in southern India. But this is not the only identity of Sachin or his relationship to the canvas.

Sachin is a self-taught artist and photographer. He has not learned painting or photography from any institute nor does he hold any degree from any art college, but his achievement in painting is mind-boggling. Certainly, Sachin has a very extraordinary career graph in art and has developed his own identity in Knife Painting which reflects his originality. His paintings display a freely used color palette in a range of different hues. His paintings are an expression of fabulous artwork having forceful strokes, confident lines, and thoughtful yet impressive color combinations. He makes his paintings from start to finish uninterrupted.

Though manufacturing canvas is Sachin's business, his steady advancement in the world of creativity and his love for art & photography is his mainstay for life, says he.

FROM THE ARTIST:

My paintings and I, use each other to express ourselves….with colors borrowed from life. I paint with generous use of thick bold colors using a palette knife, trying to hold myself in front of a lifeless blank canvas.

Every painting of mine is a part of me, maybe in some capacity, and what I paint depends on the state of mind I am in at that particular moment. The painting, the colors, or even a stroke cannot be recreated once that moment has passed. Hence the painting should express the artist more than the objects he uses to convey the mood he is in. It's never planned, intentional, or mechanical ……its spontaneous, instinctive, and most of the time an emotional outburst that works as a de-stressing process. It can be a communicable medium if you can connect it with a painting.

– SACHIN UPADHYE