Radha with Flower

Suhas Roy was born in Bangladesh. He joined the Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Calcutta. He was further tutored under Prof. S.W. Hayter on graphic art and mural art at École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

European modernism inspired him greatly while he was in France and later on the black-and-white works of Taikan, a Japanese artist who also influenced his landscapes.

His early prints and etchings gave way to his sensitive Christ figures and faces inspired by Europe's church and altar figures. Later, these interests developed into his paintings of the female face and form. The women are romanticised, beautiful, luminous and melancholic.

His work is usually inspired by the life around him but rooted in fantasy. His long-standing muse was Radha – who was a mythic embodiment of feminine beauty. His works have been exhibited all over the world. Roy lives and works in Santiniketan, where he is the head of the Department of Painting at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. He lives and works in Kolkata.