“Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt once said. In a short span of time, the two artists-SAIFUN NISHA KHATUN (NISHA) and MANOJ PODDAR who founded the art studio in joint collaboration, has set a visionary based on the principle that they benefit from having their artworks promoted and acknowledged. Statements about inner selves are voiced boldly but silently on canvas for the world to visualize with their consciousness. The studio space is visited by art lovers looking to find and buy original artwork. Manoj and Nisha’s studio is a great example of an art space that showcases the variety and skill present in contemporary art. Visitor Information If you’re an art lover then you won’t want to miss the experience of exploring our studio renowned for the diversity and talent it displays. Drawing on both theoretical and practical knowledge of art, and on our considerable experience of the contemporary art world, each member endeavours to combine their skills to ensure that our fellow artists, visitor and collectors always experience the studio at its best.
Artists at A Glance

Saifunnisha Khatun (Nisha), is a versatile, young artist born in 1991 in Birbhum, West Bengal, India. She is an emerging revolutionary artist who works in Textile Designing and Painting. Since her childhood, she had a passion toward the Islamic art culture, its design, art and architecture that lead her to opt her profession as an artist. She has obtained her B.F.A & M.F.A from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.
Saifunnisha works in an abstract, minimal method with a fondness for the rigors of an austere usage of paper, thread, clothes, colour and mixed materials. Her works frequently include dynamic, sweeping stitches and weaving that characterize much of her arts. It’s often noted that her work conveys a controlled but dynamic sense of movement. The colourful paper pieces as appliqué and hand stitches find their way onto the surface; specially her hand stitches are executed in hues of brilliant colour thread and are quite playful. She tries to reach beyond her actual concept of representation by creating a mental challenge to combined, colours that are unlikely go well, spatial arrangements that are surprising and these components turn into a finished piece of art that in satisfying to both artist and viewer. The main inspiration behind the selection of her concepts is from the handmade, quilted, stitched and weaving practices of the women of her family. She paints to make sense of the world around her, to experience the world within her and to find her place, purpose and value in both. Her paintings seek to capture the moments of life as joy, sorrow, excitement in an abstract way, yet considers the way often balance along the linear, handling of hand stitches and thoughtful imagination.
She has received National Scholarship from Ministry of Culture, India and Merit Scholarship from Visva Bharati University. She has been awarded by Aranya Art & Culture, Kolkata. She has mounted numerous Exhibitions, Workshops and Residencies, that includes Niv Art Centre, New Delhi, Budapest in Erline Galleria NKFT and workshops in Delhi, Rajasthan, Karnataka.

Manoj Poddar, born in 14th August, 1983, in a rural village called Banki in the district of Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, Manoj Poddar is a prolific young artist whose art forms portrays nature in huge canvases. Though financial crisis during his childhood forced him to sell clay sculptures to pursue his formal education, he completed his formal basic education and then pursued B. Fine in 2007 and M. Fine in 2009 from Kala Bhavana, VisvaBharati University, Santiniketan. Manoj developed his own distinctive style by unifying his interests in expressing emotional and psychological responses to the world through mighty colours and expressions. This reflects his post-impressionistic bent of mind. He uses colours derived from natural resources like earth colour, cow dung, plant sap, charcoal, soil and leaves etc similar to Indian folk artists who use in their own domain. Manoj Poddar is extremely versatile in his treatment of colour and texture.
Travelling across India and abroad he has participated in many shows including travel show in London, exhibitions in Budapest at Erline Galleria, NKFT and Embassy in India ASCC, Gallery Blue spade in Bangalore, Far way Tree Gallery in Chennai. He has also participated in several artist international residencies and workshops held in Budapest, Switzerland, Indonesia and India and has acclaimed a great recognition in the domain of visual art.

Artists’ Statement
Saifunisha Khatun says‘ I use local, ethnic styles, fabric as well as designs and blend the contemporary and tradition techniques and occasionally I apply myriad stitches of thread and other found objects to construct the designs and patterns on the textile surface. Over the years painting has helped me to relax my mind, find peace and connect with inner joy. I am deeply conscious about every brushstroke and linear hand stitches and abstract space division I create. This brings me close to my true self. The beauty, strength and wisdom found in nature never cease to fill me with wonder and inspiration. my work is a hardness response to both conscious and unconscious thoughts. The outcome is a joy. My goal is to inspire everyone who see my work through my eyes to look more prudently at the world around that will lead them to discover beauty in unusual places:”.
Manoj Poddar has a remarkable likeness to the Indian aboriginal art, as they transform a new tradition of figurative and narrative visual art. He says “Nature has always been my influencer in work. Taking clue from Indian Folk art, I represent fragmented modern visual style, often mixing geometric and non-geometric shapes. My palette comprises of pure unblended colours and brushwork. The visual vocabulary of colour to depicts my signature form and content. The beauty of my painting lies in its evocative portrayal of humdrum, mundane human and animal overlapping in a world of happy coexistence. My paintings reflect the rural aspects and indigenous motif picturising the beholder breathing in fresh air. my brush stroke conveys a sense of moment to the still images. My paintings bear the unparalleled depictions of natural and mythological world by using a variety of modern media. I prefer to work with natural colour that I prepare myself. That journey of preparing colour has a tells a different story. I use my own realm of imagination to create art on a professional scale. I also deal with urban subjects using acrylic colours brainstorming the viewers to analyse the visual narrative. The close connection with natural surroundings is not only my source of ideas but also turns to the myths and legends of India and overseas that showcases metaphors from the daily lives. My painterly images reflect the exploration of my creative potential of imagination and subconscious thoughts that touch the juxtaposition of the real yet surreal, a fantasy and a dream yet riddle with reality”.