Meet the Artists
Every piece at ARTVIK begins as an original painting by an artist we know by name. Trained at some of India's leading art schools, each works in their own studio, in their own style. These are the people whose work now finds its place in homes across Europe.
Arun Maruti Peje
Vasai, Maharashtra, India
"I paint the small things."
A hand resting on a table, the quiet of a Sunday afternoon, a moment between two people that most would forget within the hour. These are the things I have always noticed, long before I called myself an artist.
After two group shows where people stood in front of my work but nothing sold, I began to wonder if this was the right path. Then, on the final day, a buyer from Germany chose one of my paintings. It was my first sale, and it was enough to keep going.
- White Square Gallery, Berlin
- Embassy of India, Berlin
- Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
- Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
- Maharashtra State Exhibition Award, 2015
My art is not for a gallery crowd or a particular kind of collector. It is for ordinary people, wherever they happen to be standing when they see it.
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Shravan Rathod
Vasai, Maharashtra, India
"Look closely, and let the hand follow what the eye has understood."
Art was never about perfect lines for me. It was about learning to see, to feel, and to listen to my own hand. I earned my Art Teacher Diploma with First Class honours and am now completing my Master's in Fine Arts.
Alongside my own practice, I teach young artists in my independent studio. Watching a student mix a colour they truly meant, or measure a line with their own eye for the first time, has shaped how I see my own work too.
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Abhijeet Dandawate
Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
"Colour says things words cannot."
Before I pick up a brush, I sit with the canvas in silence and paint the whole picture in my mind first. Every work you see here began that way, fully imagined before a single colour touched the surface.
Some days it is a horse mid stride. Other days it is a quiet moment of tenderness between people. The thread through all of it is the same: emotion, held in colour and composition.
I want you to feel peace when you look at my paintings. Warmth, and a sense of belonging. My hope is that they travel further than I ever will, and find a home with you.
Explore Abhijeet's collectionDifferent hands, different stories, one shared love for art.
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