Babu Eshwar Prasad

A contemporary Indian artist, Babu Eshwar Prasad is a painter renowned for drawing on his own dreams and, with the mind’s eye, recreating the almost mystical visions that have come to him. Prasad’s landscapes perfectly capture the subversion of dreams; the scenery is familiar in the sense that you can clearly make out a sky, a mountainside, a tree, or a river – but the colours are often not what you would expect – imagine a blood-red sky or yellow mountains. It has also been remarked that Prasad’s paintings retain a child-like quality, in the sense that he denotes the fantasy and wild imaginings of youth as a means of expressing the disappointment we all feel when viewing certain nostalgic scenes through the eyes of an adult.