The artist
Milind Shimpi
Contemporary Indian artist · Oil, acrylic & airbrush on canvas
Milind Shimpi is a contemporary Indian artist working in the classical realist tradition of Indian painting — every canvas oil or acrylic, laid down slowly, layer by layered patience.
His canvases move between many worlds: the devotional — gods met face to face, in colour and in light; the historical — the Maratha past rendered with a portraitist's gravity; the everyday — the village path at dusk, water carried home; and the horse, painted in all its speed and nobility.
He is equally known for the airbrush — a medium rare in fine art — and for the decades of workshops and demonstrations through which he taught it, in schools, colleges, academies and organisations across Maharashtra.
The work is built slowly — time that remains visible in the surface, in the depth of the darks and the deliberation of every detail.
Three decades of exhibitions — from the galleries of Pune to Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, and Artline, Dubai — and a body of work held in private collections, corporate offices, resorts and hotels across India and abroad.