Presented jointly by Akar Prakar and ITC, Ketakee Roy Choudhury’s paintings were recently on display at the Sonar Bangla Sheraton Hotel.

Essentially a landscape painter, Roy Choudhury seems to prefer acrylic, though she uses a range of surfaces such as canvas, glass, acrylic sheet and paper. The untitled mountainscapes in pen and ink on paper reflect skillful handling of subtle lines along with wellbalanced cross-hatchings that capture the way to snowy peaks and a vast expanse of space. The only oil on canvas, Amber Garden depicts a dense forest, with a patch of sunlight making its way through a natural window. What deserves mention is the reverse technique that the artist uses to paint on glass or a transparent acrylic sheet — where the foreground is painted first and the background later. In another of her works, Dripping Sky, where the snow peaks lean on the blue sky, and a lone cloud kisses a stretch of green farmland, the soft nuances are well manifest. In Scarlet Evening and Moon in the Mist, the mountains dissolve in a sea of colours. However, figure drawings do not seem to be the artist’s forte. Often, the figures seem to be out of place and a lack of structural support in the composition becomes evident.