Santoshkumar Patil (full name Santoshkumar Ravsaheb Patil, b. 3 October 1975) is a senior visual artist based in Badlapur, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, whose paintings reflect a mature blend of observation, emotion, and artistic craftsmanship. His creative practice spans decades during which he has explored figurative and semi-realistic subjects with powerful colour, bold strokes, and thoughtfully developed compositions.

Educated in painting (G.D. Art & A.T.D.) with early roots in a farming family in Dudhgoan, Sangli, Patil’s artistic vision was shaped by his deep connection to life’s rhythms and human experience. Over time, he developed a signature style that balances organic forms and delicate interactions among figures, animals, birds, and natural elements. His works often convey emotional landscapes where colour choices, rhythmic compositions, and expressive gestures create visual narratives that resonate with sensitivity and depth.

Patil’s oeuvre includes vibrant representations of horses, birds, human figures, and symbolic scenes where anatomy and sentimentality engage viewers on multiple levels. His paintings are known for their vivid palette, occasionally embellished with metallic touches of silver and gold, and an expressive use of intense pinks, blues, and yellows that add richness and visual energy.

Over the years, he has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Jehangir Art Gallery and Artist’s Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai, and group shows across India and internationally (including Dubai). His works are also held in private collections in the UK, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and beyond.

Patil’s artistic practice reflects a dialogue between visual realism and emotional expression, revealing inner life through surface, texture, and colour. His paintings continue to attract wide appreciation for their aesthetic depth and heartfelt engagement with human and animal subjects alike.

Realities of Life

The recent endeavours of Santoshkumar Patil in oil and acrylic colours on canvas exemplify subtle nuances of the vivid realities of life in apt arenas and perspectives. These are mostly based on his various experiences in life over a considerable period and the everlasting impacts they have made on his sensitive mind.

Deeply impressed and obsessed by vivid sentimental mindscapes of sensitive human beings and their emotional attachments with surroundings, nature and other sensitive human souls and spirits in their vicinity, Santoshkumar Patil decided to express them in artistic and aesthetic forms and modules by using apt colour tones and their harmony as well as rhythm alongwith the relevant expressive and eloquent perceptions through mindscapes of feelings in their sensitive mind like happiness, anxiety, curiosity, togetherness, joy, rhythmic attachment of their souls and spirits in apt arenas etc.

He has focused his work on the power and strength prevalent in horses and their relevance in life. He has also illustrated the anatomy and sentimental attachment amongst horses via their emotional proximity or in other words, togetherness. He has also adorned his work on horses with such iconic images of feelings and anatomical gestures showing close relations amongst them. Also, he has presented such qualities in human minds, mostly young women and ladies, in the company of nature or alone, but longing for their fulfilment in apt arenas. Various colour combinations and their rhythmic cohesive synthesis have often rendered the desired outcome and expected visual effects in his paintings in a realistic style.

Some paintings, particularly those on harsh and stark realities of life, are marvellous and amazing. Most of the paintings depict the realities of life at vivid arenas and perspectives of seasonal perturbations and the ensuing atmospheric changes etc,. are innovative and aesthetically adorned with illumination, shadows, reflections of the inner self, and so on, truly bearing testimony to his genuine artistic talent and creative instincts.

He has a rational mind and an optimistic attitude and outlook towards life and its realms in different arenas. Consequently, these virtues, along with a realistic yet spiritual base of mind and its impact on his inner subconscious mind, have played a prominent role in successfully achieving the desired visual glory and the ensuing sensitive effects in his innovative work. Optimum use of apt colours, experimental approach, correctness of vivid techniques and styles together have rendered an ecstasy and distinct glory as well as uniqueness to his works.

It is envisaged with hope and optimism that his work on various themes and subjective peculiarities will be highly commended and appreciated by the present art fraternity, leading to their warm and overwhelming response and encouraging appreciative accolades. The day is not far off when his innovative and creative work highlighting the numerous special features and sentimental mindscapes of the different human souls and spirits will be commended by all on a global plane, thereby duly encouraging and motivating him for more meaningful and subjective presentations in his subsequent art journey inthe future.

R. S. Pande
Art Lover/Critic

Santoshkumar Patil

Visual Artist | Badlapur, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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