Amol Saraf
AMOL SARAF earned his degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mumbai, India in . Amol Saraf feels that “My mission as an artist is enhancing the beauty of the world by creating exclusive, sustainable and eco-friendly works of art for the compassionate art loving community across various cultures around the globe.” He is strongly inspired by Meditation, spirituality and The Nature and believes in creating artwork that is soothing, refreshing and positive. He is a born multifaceted artist. Mr. Saraf love to work in all mediums and with all types of materials. Though Oil on Canvas is his first love, he enjoy creating through various forms of expressions and materials. His works of art ranges from oil/acrylic on canvas paintings, watercolor/ pencil on paper artworks, murals in painting, stone, plaster of Paris, and Siporex to advertisement, logo, symbol designing, calligraphic works of art etc. He is best at drawing caricatures and cartoons.
Besides visual artist he is a good entertainer as a mimicker, actor, singer and comedian. He has a special interest in photography and has undertaken photography assignments for various corporates and renowned architects of Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra. He works as a freelancer for nature photography and trekking events. One of his photograph won “Best in Photography” award at Healing Power of Art competition organized by Manhattan Arts International, New York, USA, in May 2010. He pursued his profession as a painter but could not resist his passion for photography. Painting is what he is blessed with and love expressing feelings through paintings and murals, whereas photography is his soul. These are the two things he feels his existence with. He enjoy connecting with the entire things in this universe through his camera lens whether its people, nature, cultural events, still life, the monuments, street life, or addressing world’s problems and creating awareness. He believe the moment captured is the moment made immortal. He feel blessed that he has that art, passion, and profession that can be used for the betterment of our world.
He has numerous other international and national achievements to his credit, such as, his colored pencils work of art has been awarded “ Award for Outstanding Achievement” by Colored Pencil Society of America in 2015, he is been Awarded “ Best Hand writer of the world 2015” for his artistic handwriting by Handwriting for Humanity, New York, he was one of the only eight artists invited from around the world for conducting workshop at 798 International Children’s Art Festival, Beijing, China 2015, he was one of the five artists as outstanding award winners at Toride International Wall Mural competition 2014, Japan ,just to mention a few. He has conducted more than 15 exhibitions on national and international level. He has been selected and invited for Guest Artist Residence at Smedbyn, by Culture, Recreation and Sports Department of Jonkoping, Sweden, in the year 2015.
Categories: Visual Arts
