As he has described it, the act of painting — from selecting imagery and building composition to translating a referenced photograph onto canvas, is one of total involvement, during which he introduces his own changes, subtle and overt, to make the work entirely his own.
Born in 1966 in Kerala, Binoy Varghese is one of India's most accomplished photorealist painters, an artist whose canvases feel simultaneously familiar and cinematic, rooted in the everyday yet charged with visual intention. His training began at the RLV College of Fine Arts in Kochi, where he earned a National Diploma in Fine Arts, laying the technical groundwork for what would become a richly layered and internationally recognised practice.
What makes Varghese's work distinctive is the way it draws from multiple visual worlds at once. His time working in the film industry and as a poster artist left a lasting imprint on how he sees and composes, his paintings carry the framing instincts of cinema, the boldness of graphic art, and the precision of photography.