Veteran artist R S Shakya, has participated in 19 solo shows and 82 group art exhibitions, both in India and abroad. A three-time selected artist of the Lalit Kala Akademi’s National Exhibition (1991, 1993, 1997), he has also been exhibited at the Gottlieb Foundation, Broadway, New York, USA. He has also taken part in 17 art camps, including those organised at Rohtak University and Aligarh Muslim University in India, and at Pattaya in Thailand. The artist has been honoured by the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil. This senior artist has extended his valuable expertise to the art community in his capacity as a Judge in the Professional Category, organised by Camlin, India. An artist who likes to give back to his community, R S Shakya has been in the forefront of organising group shows at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, and the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. He was also instrumental in coorganising National Painting Camps at Dhanolti and Rishikesh, Uttarakhand.

RS Shakya’s personal practice in art reflects the qualities of a veteran practitioner who rejoices in both nature’s expansive and its minutia fascinations. A fondness of colour and a matching eye for perspective give his creations a mesmerised draw. His technique with colour and light imbibe the works with luminosity as is seen in his study of autumn leaves, bunched together in severe compositional geometry, while submerged in a mellow aureate palette. Elsewhere, the scenic takes enclose wide angled panorama, at once grand and yet familiar.