Achyut Palav
Achyut Palav
Achyut Palav Achyut Palav is a Master Calligrapher from India who has made promoting Indian calligraphy and scripts his mission in life. He considers the numerous phonetically evolved scripts of India to be superior examples of design, with each letterform a work of art with high potential of application across media and subjects. He has done extensive work in many Indian scripts, especially Devanagari, and explores various styles and concepts.
Prakash Bal Joshi
Prakash Bal Joshi
Prakash Bal Joshi is a multifaceted personality with four decades in journalism, creative writing and international recognition as an artist. His work is spontaneous and brush strokes are full of energy brining the picture alive.
Milind Mulick
Milind Mulick
Milind Mulick is an internationally acclaimed Indian watercolor artist based in Pune, Maharashtra. Trained under his father, renowned painter Pratap Mulick, he developed a distinctive style that captures the beauty of landscapes with remarkable sensitivity and realism. After beginning his career as an architectural illustrator and commercial designer, he became a full-time painter. He has held over 40 solo exhibitions in India and abroad, and his works are featured in prestigious public and private collections worldwide. A respected author and educator, he has published several bestselling books on watercolor painting and regularly conducts workshops, demonstrations, and online classes, inspiring artists across the world.
Jayanta Guha
Jayanta Guha
Chandramohan Kulkarni
Chandramohan Kulkarni
Awards
2022 Satyajit Ray Award, Sahir Ludhianvi and Balraj Sahni Foundation
2026 Godawari Gaurav Puraskar, Kusumagraj Foundation, Nashik
These are distinguished awards. Many other prestigious awards are not listed here for brevity, but are no less significant.
His major contribution is to Marathi literature. He has worked on thousands of book covers and illustrations, including many children’s illustrations. He works in almost all types of mediums.
He has written many articles on understanding art and has authored at least five books on art.
His work does not follow a typical format or style. He changes his style from time to time, and rather than focusing on surface-level painting, he aims to convey an inner statement through his work.
He is drawn to depicting the everyday lives of ordinary people — small vendors, street vendors, construction workers, painters, shopkeepers, and others engaged in small businesses. His work reflects contemporary thought regarding human relationships, drawn from Marathi and Hindi literature. This results in varied styles across his paintings.
Besides figurative work, he also expresses through abstract, absurd, and purely compositional forms. This experimentation keeps his practice evolving beyond a single visual language.
More than 20 solo exhibitions of paintings and sculptures
Participated in National and International shows
Works in Government of India collections and private collections in India and abroad
Teaching faculty at Riyaaz – Illustrator’s Academy, Bhopal. Joint initiative of Ektara, Bhopal and Tata Trusts.
