His paintings are immediately arresting. Vivid, flat colour fills his canvases with an almost theatrical energy, while intricate textile-inspired patterning adds a quiet intricacy beneath the surface brightness.
Farhad Hussain born in Jamshedpur in 1975, is an artist of considerable conviction, someone who paints as though he has something urgent to say, and has spent years perfecting the language to say it. Graduating from Shantiniketan in 2003, he went on to complete his postgraduate diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda in 2005, an education that gave him both a strong conceptual foundation and exposure to some of India's most rigorous artistic thinking.
His paintings are immediately arresting. Vivid, flat colour fills his canvases with an almost theatrical energy, while intricate textile-inspired patterning adds a quiet intricacy beneath the surface brightness. But to stop at the visual spectacle would be to miss the real substance of his work. Hussain is fundamentally a painter of human relationships, their tensions, their absurdities, their unspoken negotiations. Each figure in his compositions is deliberately conceived, carrying its own personality while remaining bound to the others, together building narratives that unfold the longer you look.