Artist Profile

About Artist

Susama Chitrakar, a young Patachitra artist and a homemaker, hails from a rural village in Medinipur in West Bengal, India. Her parents, Shyamsundar Chitrakar and Rani Chitrakar too are skilled patachitra artists (also known as 'Patuas,' those who paint on Cloth), involved in traditional Bengal patachitra scroll painting. Susama grew up watching her parents practicing this traditional artform and learnt the skills of scroll paintings from them. Realizing ...